Summer heatwaves promote blooms of harmful cyanobacteria

A coupled biological-physical model is developed investigating how competition for light between buoyant cyanobacteria, diatoms, and green algae in eutrophic lakes is affected by the meteorological conditions of this extreme summer heatwave, and warns that climate change is likely to yield an increased threat of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in eUTrophic freshwater ecosystems.