Cyanobacterial blooms : toxicity, diversity, modelling
and management

The B-BLOOMS2 project consists of a study of cyanobacteria blooms in Belgium, involving sampling of a set of reference lakes in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia, and the use of different approaches to assess environmental conditions, cyanobacterial diversity, potential toxicity through detection of mcy genes, and toxin measurement using different techniques. Samples were also collected through BLOOMNET, a network involving water users and managers in the different regions.