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Science 4 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5872, pp. 57 - 58
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155398
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Perspectives

CLIMATE:
Blooms Like It Hot

Hans W. Paerl1 Jef Huisman2

A link exists between global warming and the worldwide proliferation of harmful cyanobacterial blooms.

1Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC 28557, USA. E-mail: hpaerl{at}email.unc.edu

2Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-mail: jef.huisman{at}science.uva.nl

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