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NCCOS-supported research team has published three studies investigating how increased water temperatures and nutrient footprints influence HABs

woman in yellow coat pipettes water into small sample tubeAn NCCOS-supported research team has published three new studies investigating how both increased water temperatures and nutrient footprints influence harmful algal blooms. Together, the papers reveal why blooms of the toxin-producing algae Karenia brevis (commonly known as Florida red tide) are becoming more persistent, more severe, and increasingly difficult to predict.