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Review
. 2021 Jul:274:129912.
doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129912. Epub 2021 Feb 15.

Harmful algal blooms and their eco-environmental indication

Jun Sha  1 , Haiyan Xiong  2 , Chengjun Li  2 , Zhiying Lu  3 , Jichao Zhang  2 , Huan Zhong  4 , Wei Zhang  5 , Bing Yan  6
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Review

Harmful algal blooms and their eco-environmental indication

Jun Sha et al. Chemosphere. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) in freshwater lakes and oceans date back to as early as the 19th century, which can cause the death of aquatic and terrestrial organisms. However, it was not until the end of the 20th century that researchers had started to pay attention to the hazards and causes of HABs. In this study, we analyzed 5720 published literatures on HABs studies in the past 30 years. Our review presents the emerging trends in the past 30 years on HABs studies, the environmental and human health risks, prevention and control strategies and future developments. Therefore, this review provides a global perspective of HABs and calls for immediate responses.

Keywords: Algal toxin; CiteSpace; Climate change; Control strategies; Eutrophication.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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