Marine Algal Bloom: Characteristics, Causes and Climate Change Impacts

• Main Author: Sarkar, Santosh Kumar (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Oceanography.; Coasts.; Climate change.; Environmental health.; Aquatic ecology .; Coastal Sciences.; Climate Change.; Environmental Health.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.

In the marine environment, single-celled, microscopic, plant-like organisms naturally occur in the well-lit surface layer of any body of water. These organisms, referred to as phytoplankton or microalgae, form the base of the food web upon which nearly all other marine organisms depend. Algal bloom...