Lake eutrophication and its ecosystem response |
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Authors: | BoQiang Qin Guang Gao GuangWei Zhu YunLin Zhang YuZhi Song XiangMing Tang Hai Xu JianMing Deng |
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Institution: | 15560. Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China 25560. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
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Abstract: | China is a country with many lakes, about one-third of which are freshwater mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Currently most of the lakes are mesotrophic or eutrophic. Lake eutrophication has become one of the major ecological and environmental problems faced by lakes in China and can lead to a series of abnormal ecosystem responses, including extinction of submerged plants, frequent occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms, increased microbial biomass and productivity, decreased biodiversity, accelerated cycles, and a change in the efficient use of nutrients. With development of eutrophication, the whole lake ecosystem suffers decreased biodiversity, simplification of biotic community structure, instability of the ecosystem, and ultimately the clear-water, macrophyte-dominated ecosystem gradually shifts to a turbid-water, algae-dominated ecosystem. This ecosystem succession mechanism is speculated to be caused by different nutrient utilization efficiencies of macrophytes and phytoplankton. The ultimate ecosystem succession trend of seriously eutrophic lakes is that a phytoplankton-dominated autotrophic lake shifts to a heterotrophic lake dominated by micro-organisms, protozoans. |
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