Dynamics of a Chlainomonas sp. (Chlamydomonadales, Chlorophyta) algal bloom on Bagley Lake, North Cascades, WA
We tracked a bloom of Chlainomonas sp. on Upper Bagley Lake in the North Cascade Mountains, USA, to assess the spatio-temporal changes of a recurrent bloom of a single species of snow algae using algal relative photosynthetic efficiency, amplicon sequencing, and observations of snow color intensity.