Distribution of hepatotoxic cyanobacterial blooms in Belgium and Luxembourg

Raphaël Willame; Tomasz Jurczak; Jean François Iffly; Tomas Kull; Jussi Meriluoto; Lucien Hoffmann

doi:10.1007/s10750-005-4453-2

Distribution of hepatotoxic cyanobacterial blooms in Belgium and Luxembourg

Raphaël Willame
, Tomasz Jurczak
, Jean François Iffly
, Tomas Kull
, Jussi Meriluoto
, Lucien Hoffmann^*

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Abstract

A survey of the distribution of cyanobacterial blooms in the southern part of Belgium, in Luxembourg as well as in bordering northeastern France was carried out for 4 years (1997, 1999-2001). In the 64 cyanobacterial bloom samples collected, Microcystis as well as Planktothrix were the most frequently encountered dominant bloom formers, followed by Anabaena, Woronichinia, and Aphanizomenon. The relative frequency of (co-)dominant genera was highly correlated to the geology of the catchments. Microcystins were found in 53% of the analysed blooms and their presence was mainly assigned to Microcystis dominance. The highest microcystin concentration of 2231 μg g^-1 seston DW was recorded in a sample dominated by Woronichinia naegeliana. Among the 6 investigated microcystin variants, MC-LR was the most frequently detected whereas MC-LY was never revealed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-117
Number of pages	19
Journal	Hydrobiologia
Volume	551
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-005-4453-2
Publication status	Published - Nov 2005
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The authors thank Prof. V. Demoulin and Dr. H.M. Cauchie for reading the manuscript. Raphaël Willame had a fellowship from the ‘Ministère de la Culture, de l®Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche® (Luxembourg). This work was partly realised in the framework of the European project MIDI-CHIP (EVK2-CT99-00026).

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Belgium
Blooms
Cyanobacteria
Ecology
Luxembourg
Microcystins

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