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gnc reported harmful algal blooms
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1c37d61e-6cd3-11e9-8d7d-000d3ab6a624
Title
gnc reported harmful algal blooms
Date
May 2, 2019, 7:09 a.m., Publication
Abstract
Harmful algal blooms can have direct impacts on aquatic life, for example fish kills, and on human health, for example paralytic shellfish poisoning. Harmful algal blooms are often a result of excessive nutrient loads in a water body allowing certain species of algae to increase rapidly in number. Therefore efforts to reduce nutrient loads in waterways can have direct impacts on improved human health. The map shows the number of reported harmful algae blooms for the period 1980 to 2015. The data are based on the harmful algae event database (HAEDAT, http://haedat.iode.org) and are displayed by Coastal Segmentation and related CATchments (COSCAT).
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Owner
Global_Nutrient_Cycle
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Type
not filled
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License
None
Language
eng
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Extent
  • long min: -179.9333343506
  • long max: 151.8999938965
  • lat min: -37.4833335876
  • lat max: 81.0000000000
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG:4326
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Category
Oceans