Occurrence of toxin-producing cyanobacteria blooms in a Brazilian semiarid reservoir

We report the occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms and the presence of cyanotoxins in water samples from the Armando Ribeiro Gonçalves reservoir (06° 08’ S and 37° 07’ W), located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in the semiarid region of northeastern Brazil. The cyanobacterial species were ident...

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Main Authors: I. A. S. Costa, S. M. F. O Azevedo, P. A. C. Senna, R. R. Bernardo, S. M. Costa, N. T. Chellappa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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