The Red Harmful Plague in Times of Climate Change: Blooms of the Cyanobacterium Triggered by Stratification Dynamics and Irradiance.

is a harmful planktonic cyanobacterium, forming concentrated metalimnetic populations in deep oligo- and mesotrophic lakes, even after successful restoration. In Lake Zurich (Switzerland), emerged as a keystone species with annual mass developments since the 1970s. Its success was partly attributed to effects of lake warming, such as changes in thermal stratification and seasonal deep mixing.