UF Study: To Help Prevent Harmful Algal Blooms, Limit Nitrogen and Phosphorus

Dan Environment, Florida, Water

Algal blooms can kill fish and harm a lake’s ecosystem, but by reducing two nutrients together such as nitrogen and phosphorus – not just one or the other — water managers might limit the blooms in lakes and rivers, a new University of Florida study shows. To come to this conclusion, UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers used …