Influence of Soil Temperature on Corn Germination and Growth. We experienced June-like temperatures in March. Trees budded, spring flowers bloomed and fertilizer rigs crisscrossed fields. Soil temperatures matched what we normally experience in late April and early May, jumping well ahead of previous records.
An algal bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae (typically microscopic) in a water system.
An algal bloom that is caused because of an increase in nutrients in the water. They are dangerous when the toxins that the algae produce become concentrated in the bodies of organisms that consume the algae. Fungus-like protists. Heterotrophs which have cell walls, and use spores to reproduce.