Relationships between eutrophication, cyanobacteria blooms and avian botulism mortalities in the Great Salt Lake

• Main Author: Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Hosted by Utah State University Libraries 2011
• Subjects: eutrophication; cyanobacteria; blue-green algae; Nodularia; birds; waterfowl; botulism; saline; Great Salt Lake; nutrients; hypereutrophic; cyanotoxins; HAB; Life Sciences; Farmington; Northern Shoveler; Shoveler
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/880; https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1895&context=wats_facpub

Massive bird mortalities due to botulism occur in Farmington and Bear River Bays in the Great Salt Lake. During 2007 we investigated whether there could be a relationship between blooms of the toxic cyanobacteria, Nodularia spumengia and botulism outbreaks in Northern Shoveler ducks and other birds....