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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
卷 41, 期 1, 页码 7-20出版社
AMER SOC AGRONOMY
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2010.0273
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
- Environment Canada (EC)
Inputs of nutrients (P and N) to freshwaters can cause excessive aquatic plant growth, depletion of oxygen, and deleterious changes in diversity of aquatic fauna. As part of a National Agri-Environmental Standards Initiative, the Government of Canada committed to developing environmental thresholds for nutrients to protect ecological condition of agricultural streams. Analysis of data from >200 long-term monitoring stations across Canada and detailed ecological study at similar to 70 sites showed that agricultural land cover was associated with increased nutrient concentrations in streams and this, in turn, was associated with increased sestonic and benthic algal abundance, loss of sensitive benthic macroinvertebrate taxa, and an increase in benthic diatom taxa indicative of eutrophication. Chemical thresholds for N and P were defined by applying five approaches, employing either a predetermined percentile to a water chemistry data set or a relationship between water chemistry and land cover, to identify boundaries between minimally disturbed and impaired conditions. Comparison of these chemical thresholds with biological thresholds (derived from stressor-response relationships) produced an approach for rationalizing these two types of thresholds and deriving nutrient criteria. The resulting criteria were 0.01 to 0.03 mg L-1 total P and 0.87-1.2 mg L-1 total N for the Atlantic Maritime, 0.02 mg L-1 total P and 0.21 mg L-1 total N for the Montane Cordillera, -0.03 mg L-1 total P and -1.1 mg L-1 total N for the Mixedwood Plains, and similar to 0.10 mg L-1 total P and 0.39-0.98 mg L-1 total N for the interior prairies of Canada. Adoption of these criteria should result in greater likelihood of good ecological condition with respect to benthic algal abundance, diatom composition, and macroinvertebrate composition.
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