Annual Report 2015

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February 26th, 2015

Human activity may be supporting growth of harmful algae in lakes The organisms commonly known as blue-green algae have proliferated much more rapidly than other algae in lakes across North America and Europe over the past two centuries – and in many cases the rate of increase has sharply accelerated since the mid-20th century.� According to scientiffic article published in Ecology Letters with Jordi Catalan from the CREAF as an author.

Algae bloom in a lake. Autor: Fernando Cobo


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