Starving Dolphins in Florida Traced to Algae Bloom Fueled by Human Waste

In 2013, dozens of dolphins living in Lagoon in the Florida Indian River, began to die mysteriously. Their remains are washed, showing that animals were washed. For more than a decade, the ecologists believe that they understand the cause of the strange way.

Although the deaths were related to the flowers of giant algae in the water, so far it is so far that the two events are closed and the sin of humanity. It may be difficult to believe that, but it can be difficult to discharge human waste and waterways of fertilization.

As ecologists note In the magazine Borders in Marine ScienceLong-term phytoplankton flowers began in 2011. The spread of organisms, such as small plants, caused a broad change in the ecology of the Indian River. Their presence caused a loss of more than 50% of the sea coast in the sea and 75% of the macroelan (known as seaweed).

He would not only kill the dolphins, but in the dental examples of dental examples taken from the carcass, they understood the isotopic ratios from 44 dolphones, which were not part of the diets, and they realized that their diets were dramatically changed. Dolphins eaten from 14% to 20% less Binderfish, a major dolphin predator animal, but less nutritious fish, eating up to 25%. In fact, the presence of phytoplankton, which has reduced the amount of food available for the usual predator of dolphins. As prey decreases, the dolphins had to hold more prey to consume the same amount of energy. The effects were not felt only by dolphins that died, but in general by the dolphin population of the region. At this time, 64% of the observed dolphins were less and 5% were classified.

“Together, the widespread dissemination of diets and nutrition has a research scientist, which has struggled to catch sufficient prey, and operating on the investigation, can succeed, causing the loss of the main structural habitats, abundance and distribution of predators.”

The history record does it. Registration of death causes for closed dolphins was the cause of death, 17% of the deduction deaths registered in the area between 2000 and 2020.

“Phytoplankton’s flowers are part of productive environmental systems,” because the Director of Strategic Programs, the Director of Strategic Programs at the University of South Florida working on the research. “Delicate effects are nutrients in a system of unusually intense, widespread, widespread or long-term flowers. In most cases, managing our activities to keep people’s activities in the safe is the key to preventing the flowers to control our activities.”

It’s a fun way to have a small silver lining. As the researchers noted, the waste and other skinny lagoon in the Lagoon of the Indian River are gradually declining and lowered to safe levels in 2035.

However, it is not surprising that human activity can be harmful to the ecosystems that the shock forests of the tropical forests may be harmful to the melting of the polar ice and thousands of invasive species to new areas. This last example, outside the main effects, the habit of recognizing God – whatever the natural environment can have any difficult results – killed our favorite wildlife.