User:JehlianeC/Harmful algal bloom

Temperature/Light Monitoring
Cyanobacteria are found to thrive most at higher light levels due to their photo-protective function, and these elevated temperatures allow for toxic cyanobacteria strains to flourish substantially, outgrowing other aquatic life such as diatoms and green algae; in addition, chlorophyll-a and pheophytin-a algal pigments were found to increase in the day but remain stagnant in the night, with no significant level of production occurring at night. Vertical mixing has effects that reduce the factors that lead to HAB production.