Journal
WATER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 127-131Publisher
EDITORIAL BOARD WATER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1016/j.wse.2015.04.008
Keywords
Sediment; Benthic algae; Soluble reactive phosphorus release; Soluble reactive phosphorus uptake; Shallow lake
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31100339]
- Special Program of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2012T50494]
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To evaluate the effect of benthic algae on soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) release from sediments in shallow lakes, experiments on SRP release with and without benthic algae in sediment cores and an experiment on SRP uptake by benthic algae were conducted using the radioisotope (P-32) tracing method. The dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in sediment cores was also investigated. The results show that benthic algae effectively reduce the release of SRP from sediments to overlying water. The uptake of SRP by benthic algae, which is the direct way in which benthic algae affect the SRP release from sediments, is low in filtered water and increases with the SRP concentration. However, in the experiment, the increased uptake rate lasted for a short time (in one hour), and after that it returned to a low rate. Benthic algae make the DO concentration and the oxic layer thickness increased, which can indirectly reduce the SRP release from sediments. These findings indicate that benthic algae can reduce the SRP release from sediments in both direct and indirect ways. It seems that the indirect way also plays an important role in reducing the SRP release from sediments. (c) 2015 Hohai University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.
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