Blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, is capable of causing sudden death when high concentrations are ingested. This toxicity is known to occur worldwide and affects not only livestock, but wildlife, marine life, and humans as well. Blue-green algae tends to grow on the surfaces of farm ponds during the summer season.
Â© World Encyclopedia 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. Aegean Sea Part of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey, bounded by Crete to the s and connected to the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara by the Dardanelles to the ne. World Encyclopedia 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. Aegean Sea Part of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey, bounded by Crete to the s and connected to the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara by the Dardanelles to the ne.
The island groups of the Aegean Sea. The Ionian Sea and most of its islands are not pictured. Greece has an extremely large number of islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227.