Literature DB >> 15850199

Is the destabilisation of lake peipsi ecosystem caused by increased phosphorus loading or decreased nitrogen loading?

T Nõges1, R Laugaste, E Loigu, I Nedogarko, B Skakalski, P Nõges.   

Abstract

Lake Peipsi (3555 km2, mean depth 7.1 m) located on the border of Estonia and Russia is the largest transboundary lake in Europe. L. Peipsi consists of three parts. The shared largest northern part L. Peipsi s.s. (2611 km2, 8.3 m) and the southern L. Pihkva (708 km2, 3.8 m) which belongs mainly to Russia are connected by the river-shaped L. Lämmijärv (236 km2, 2.5 m). The catchment area (44,245 km2 without lake area) is shared between Estonia (33.3%), Russia (58.6%) and Latvia (8%). Intensive eutrophication of L. Peipsi started in the 1970s. The biomass of N2-fixing cyanobacteria was low at heavy nutrient loading in the 1980s. After the collapse of soviet-type agriculture in the early 1990s, the loading of nitrogen sharply decreased. A certain improvement of L. Peipsi s.s. was noticed at the beginning of the 1990s together with the temporary reduction of phosphorus loading from Estonian catchment while in recent years a destabilisation of the ecosystem has been observed. This deterioration has been expressed mainly as intensive blue-green blooms and fish-kills in summer. Reappearance of blooms has been explained by the decrease in N/P loading ratio due to reduced N discharge while in some periods increased phosphorus loading could have supported this trend.

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Year:  2005        PMID: 15850199

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Water Sci Technol        ISSN: 0273-1223            Impact factor:   1.915


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1.  Changes in nutrient emissions, fluxes and retention in a north-eastern European lowland drainage basin.

Authors:  Daniel S J Mourad; Marcel Van Der Perk; Kristjan Piirimäe
Journal:  Environ Monit Assess       Date:  2006-06-02       Impact factor: 2.513

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