Changes in spatial distribution of phosphorus and nitrogen in the large north-temperate lowland Lake Peipsi (Estonia/Russia)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 599, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-39

  Kangur, Külli ^a   Möls, Tõnu ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; In lake gradients; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Pollution

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC INPUT; IN-LAKE GRADIENTS;

LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE PEIPSI; NORTHERN EUROPE; PSKOV; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VELIKAYA RIVER;

EID: 38849142635     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-9204-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (35)

1. Battarbee, R. W., N. J. Anderson, E. Jeppesen & P. R. Leavitt, 2005. Combining palaeolimnological and limnological approaches in assessing lake ecosystem response to nutrient reduction. Freshwater Biology 50: 1772-1780.
2. Carpenter, S. R., 2003. Regime shifts in lake ecosystems: pattern and variation. Vol. 15, Excellence in Ecology Series, Ecology Institute, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany.
3. Carpenter, S. R., 2005. Eutrophication of aquatic ecosystems: bistability and soil phosphorus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 10002-10005.
4. EVS-EN 1189, Determination of phosphorus - Ammonium molybdate spectrometric method.
5. EVS-EN ISO 10304-1, Determination of dissolved fluoride, chloride, nitrate and sulphate ions using liquid chromatography of ions.
6. EVS-EN ISO 11732, Determination of ammonium nitrogen by flow analysis and spectrometric detection.
7. EVS-EN ISO 13395, Determination of nitrite nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen and the sum of both by flow analysis and spectrometric detection.
8. Gulati, R. D. & E. van Donk, 2002. Lakes in the Netherlands, their origin, eutrophication and restoration: state-of-the-art review. Hydrobiologia 478: 73-106.
9. Håkanson, L., A. P. Ostapenia & V. V. Boulion, 2003. A mass-balance model for phosphorus in lakes accounting for biouptake and retention in biota. Freshwater Biology 48: 928-950.
10. Iital, A., P. Stålnacke, J. Deelstra, E. Loigu & M. Pihlak, 2005. Effects of large-scale changes in emissions on nutrient concentrations in Estonian rivers in the Lake Peipsi drainage basin. Journal of Hydrology 304: 261-273.
11. Jaani, A., 2001a. The location, size and general characterization of Lake Peipsi and its catchment area. In Nõges, T. (ed.), Lake Peipsi. Meteorology, Hydrology, Hydrochemistry. Sulemees Publishers, Tartu, 10-17.
12. Jaani, A., 2001b. Water regime. In Nõges, T. (ed.), Lake Peipsi. Meteorology, Hydrology, Hydrochemistry. Sulemees Publishers, Tartu, 65-72.
13. Kangur, K., A. Milius, T. Möls, R. Laugaste & J. Haberman, 2002. Lake Peipsi: changes in nutrient elements and plankton communities in the last decade. Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 5: 363-377.
14. Kangur, K., T. Möls, A. Milius & R. Laugaste, 2003. Phytoplankton response to changed nutrient level in Lake Peipsi (Estonia) in 1992-2001. Hydrobiologia 506-509: 265-272.
15. Kangur, K., A. Kangur, P. Kangur & R. Laugaste, 2005. Fish kill in Lake Peipsi in summer 2002 as a synergistic effect of cyanobacterial bloom, high temperature and low water level. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Biology Ecology 54: 67-80.
16. Kangur, M., K. Kangur, R. Laugaste, J.-M. Punning & T. Möls, 2007. Combining limnological and palaeolimnological approaches in assessing degradation of Lake Pskov. Hydrobiologia 584: 121-132.
17. Kangur, M. & K. Kangur, 2008. Variations of surface sediment phosphorus fractions and water phosphorus content in the large shallow Lake Peipsi. Boreal Environment Research (submitted).
18. Laugaste, R., T. Nõges, P. Nõges, V. V. Jastremskij, A. Milius & I. Ott, 2001. Algae. In Pihu, E. & J. Haberman (eds), Lake Peipsi. Flora and Fauna. Sulemees Publishers, Tartu, 31-49.
19. Leisk, Ü. & E. Loigu, 2001. Nutrients. In Nõges, T. (ed.), Lake Peipsi. Meteorology, Hydrology, Hydrochemistry. Sulemees Publishers, Tartu, 79-82.
20. Ludwig, D., W. A. Brock & S.R. Carpenter, 2005. Uncertainty in Discount Models and Environmental Accounting. Ecology and Society 10: 13. (on line) http://ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art13.
21. Milius, A., R. Laugaste, T. Möls, M. Haldna & K. Kangur, 2005. Weather conditions and water level as factors determining phytoplankton biomass and nutrient content in Lake Peipsi. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Biology Ecology 54: 5-17.
22. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystems and human well-being: general synthesis. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA. (online) http://maweb.org/en/Products.Synthesis.aspx.
23. Möls, T., 2005. Linear statistical methods for Estonian freshwater waterbodies. Estonian Naturalists' Society, Tartu, 256 pp (in Estonian with English summary).
24. Möls, T., K. Kangur, M. Haldna, A. Milius, J. Haberman, R. Laugaste & M. Möls, 2004. The Synthetic Hydrochemical and Hydrobiological Database (SD) for Lake Peipsi (Release 1.0). Tartu, CD.
25. Moss, B., T. Barker, D. Stephen, A. E. Williams, D. Balayla, M. Beklioglu & L. Carvalho, 2005. Consequences of reduced nutrient loading on a lake system in a lowland catchment: deviations from the norm? Freshwater Biology 50: 1687-1705.
26. Mourad, D. S. J., M. Van der Perk & K. Piirimäe, 2006. Changes in nutrient emissions, fluxes and retention in a North-Eastern European lowland drainage basin. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 120: 415-448.
27. OECD, 1982. Eutrophication of water, monitoring, assessment and control. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.), Paris, 150 pp.
28. Padisák, J. & I. Koncsos, 2002. Trend and noise: long-term changes of phytoplankton in the Keszthely Basin of Lake Balaton, Hungary. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 28: 194-203.
29. Punning, J.-M., J. Terasmaa & K. Tõugu, 1999. Changes in the human impact on Lake Ruusmäe in recent decades and their reflection in the sedimentary organic matter. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Biology Ecology 48: 130-142.
30. SAS Institute Inc., 1999. SAS Online Doc, Version 8. Cary, NC, SAS Institute Inc.
31. Scheffer, M., 2005. Shallow lakes and deep insights. Shallow Lakes 2005. Dalfsen, The Netherlands, Book of abstracts: 7.
32. Stålnacke, P., Ü. Sults, A. Vasiliev, B. Skakalsky, A. Botina, G. Roll, K. Pachel & T. Maltsman, 2002. An assessment of riverine loads of nutrients to Lake Peipsi, 1995-1998. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 141: 437-457.
33. Stålnacke, P., S. M. Vandsemb, A. Vassiljev, A. Grimvall & G. Jolankai, 2004. Changes in nutrient levels in some Eastern European rivers in response to large-scale changes in agriculture. Water Science and Technology 49: 28-36.
34. Starast, H., A. Milius, T. Möls & A. Lindpere, 2001. Hydrochemistry of Lake Peipsi. In Nõges, T. (ed.), Lake Peipsi: Meteorology, Hydrology, Hydrochemistry. Sulemees Publishers, Tartu, 97-131.
35. Tilzer, M. M., 1990. Specific properties of large lakes. In Tilzer, M. M. & C. Serruya (eds), Large Lakes: Ecological Structure and Function. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 39-43.