{"id":16267,"date":"2025-05-15T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/algal-bloom\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:04:16","slug":"algal-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/algal-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Algal bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Quick growth in the population of algae in freshwater or marine ecosystems, as a result of excessive nutrients in the environment. \u00a0It is usually characterised by changes in the colouration of the sea depending on which species of algae have caused the bloom (red, brown or green). These blooms have a harmful effect on the environment and other species that live in the area: the limit the amount of light that penetrates the water surface, use up all the oxygen in the water and suffocate other organisms, and even produce toxins as a by-product of their metabolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/algal-bloom_NASS-USGS-satellite.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 960px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 960\/640;width:500px;height:auto\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">Large algal bloom in Lake Erie (USA) in 2017 that was seen from space \u00a9 NASA\/USGS satellite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick growth in the population of algae in freshwater or marine ecosystems, as a result of excessive nutrients in the environment. \u00a0It is usually characterised by changes in the colouration of the sea depending on which species of algae have caused the bloom (red, brown or green). These blooms have a harmful effect on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,134,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-da","category-a-da","category-glossary-da"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marina Metic","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/author\/marinam\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}