Fertiliser has been found to cause algal or cyanobacteria blooms in shallow water as rainfall washes into water bodies following a long period of drought , according to research conducted by scientist from Wageningen University & Research , the Netherlands Institute of Ecology ( NIOO ) and Brazilian universities . The scientists took water samples from various waterbodies following rainfall and found that the addition of the nutrients had less to do with the bloom than the nutrients . They found that the addition of nutrients caused cyanobacteria to explode in numbers , except in the areas where the water initially contained less fertiliser .
Fertiliser has been found to cause algal or cyanobacteria blooms in surface water as rainfall washes into water bodies following a long period of drought, according to research conducted by scientist from Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) and Brazilian universities. The scientists took water samples from various waterbodies following rainfall and found that the temperature of the water had less to do with the bloom than the fertiliser. They found that the addition of nutrients caused cyanobacteria to explode in numbers, except in the cases where the water initially contained less fertiliser.