Effects on water quality following water transfer in Lake Taihu, China

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 471-481

  Hu, Liuming ^a,b,c   Hu, Weiping ^b   Zhai, Shuhua ^d   Wu, Haoyun ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Taihu Basin Authority   (China)

Author keywords

Assessment; Lake Taihu; Observation; Water quality; Water transfer; Yangtze River

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; CHLOROPHYLL A; LAKE TAIHU; LAKE WATER QUALITY; LARGE LAKES; LARGE SIZES; NATURAL FACTORS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; OBSERVED DATA; SHALLOW LAKES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSFER PERIOD; WATER SOURCE; WATER TRANSFERS; YANGTZE RIVER;

CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PORPHYRINS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

LAKES;

CHLOROPHYLL A; LAKE WATER; NITROGEN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHOSPHORUS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; JIANGSU; MEILIANG BAY; TAIHU LAKE; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 77049098855     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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