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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 192, Issue -, Pages 251-258Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.04.007
Keywords
SOM; Biological threshold; Chlorophyll-a; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Urban river
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- National Key Science and Technology Project: Water Pollution Control and Treatment [2012ZX07506-006]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41271314]
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River health and associated risks are fundamentally dependent on the levels of the primary productivities, i.e., sestonic and benthic chlorophyll-a. We selected a typical urban river system of the Yangtz delta to investigate nutrient and non-nutrient responses of chlorophyll-a contents and to determine biological thresholds of N and P. Results showed the mean contents of sestonic and benthic chlorophyll-a across all sampling points reached 10.2 mu g L-1 and 149.3 mu g m(-2). The self-organized mapping analysis suggested both chlorophyll-a contents clearly responded to measurements of N, P, and water temperature. Based on the chlorophyll-a criteria for fresh water and measured variables, we recommend the biological thresholds of N and P for our river system be set at 2.4 mg N L-1 and 0.2 mg P L-1, and these be used as initial nutrient reference values for local river managers to implement appropriate strategies to alleviate nutrient loads and trophic status. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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