“…From a socioeconomic point of view, this ecosystem has provided numerous goods and services, and consequently, different activities such as agriculture, tourism, fishing or former mining operations have converged for decades (Conesa and Jiménez-Cárceles, 2007;Martinez-Fernandez et al, 2014). The lagoon has been affected for years by continuous inputs of water with high concentrations of nutrients from agricultural and sewage source (Martinez Fernandez and Esteve, 2000;Pardo et al, 2004;Carreño et al, 2008;Gómez, 2017). As a consequence of this massive supply of nutrients, midway through 2015, the water quality showed a radical change due to a massive proliferation of phytoplankton (Aguilar Escribano et al, 2016).…”