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Lake Erie algal blooms ‘seeded’ internally by overwintering cells in lake-bottom sediments

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Western Lake Erie’s annual summer algal blooms are triggered, at least in part, by cyanobacteria cells that survive the winter in lake-bottom sediments, then emerge in the spring to ‘seed’ the next year’s bloom, according to a new research.