Goto, Daisuke
- University of Wisconsin Madison
Abstract
Relieving phosphorus loading is a key management tool for controlling Lake Erie eutrophication. During the 1960s and 1970s, increased phosphorus inputs degraded water quality and reduced central basin hypolimnetic oxygen levels which, in turn, eliminated thermal habitat vital to cold-water organisms and contributed to the extirpation of important benthic macroinvertebrate prey species for fishes. In response to load reductions initiated in 1972, Lake Erie responded quickly with reduced water-column phosphorus concentrations, phytoplankton biomass, and bottom-water hypoxia (dissolved oxygen
Keywords
Lake Erie; Hypoxia; Phosphorus load targets; Best management practices
Published in
Journal of Great Lakes Research
2014, volume: 40, number: 2, pages: 226-246
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2014.02.004
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/112730