Toxin-Producing Planktonic Cyanobacteria

Toxin-Producing Planktonic Cyanobacteria is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers cyanobacteria that drift as plankton in fresh water and make toxins that harm wildlife, livestock and people, such as Microcystis aeruginosa, the most common toxic bloom-forming cyanobacterium of nutrient-rich fresh water, and the genus Anabaena. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that the organism produces neurotoxins or other toxins. It excludes cyanobacteria described only as food, only as crusts on land or only for their nitrogen fixing. The group lets a reader compare the blue-green algae behind the harmful blooms that close lakes and poison drinking water.