Monitoring the trophic status of reservoirs
The current situation of regional, rather' than national, problems of eutrophication in standing waters has been widely aired in recent reports. A reliable, quantitative data base is a prerequisite to future trend monitoring, a concensus view of those reports. The objective of this report is to establish requirements, methodology and a minimal data set for nutrient and algae status in water supply reservoirs in England which may be used as a protocol for future trend monitoring.A pilot study has been carried out to assess the relative merits of different sampling strategies, the choice of which has major implications for the cost of sample collection. This short report suggests that consider the possibility of designating a few sites as ”baseline sites” at which detailed changes in trophic status as monitored by the more labour-intensive parameters would be collected on a regular, long term basis to help in the interpretation of the low cost survey results.
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Freshwater Biological Association
1987
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| Subjects: | Biology, Ecology, Limnology, Freshwater lakes, Eutrophication, Monitoring, Surveying, England, Grasmere Lake, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/22725 |
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