Gravel pit lake ecosystems reduce nitrate and phosphate concentrations in the outflowing groundwater

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 420, Issue , 2012, Pages 222-228

  Weilhartner, Andreas ^a,b   Muellegger, Christian ^a   Kainz, Martin ^b   Mathieu, Francine ^a,b   Hofmann, Thilo ^a   Battin, Tom J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Inter University Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Gravel pit lake; Groundwater; Metabolism; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; AUSTRIA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOC EXPORT; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; GRAVEL PIT; GROUNDWATER AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAKE WATERS; MASS BALANCE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; RESIDENCE TIME;

AQUIFERS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; EXCAVATION; GRAVEL; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; METABOLISM; NUTRIENTS; OPEN PIT MINING; PHYSIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHATE; SURFACE WATER;

AQUIFER; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRINKING WATER; EXCAVATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE WATER; METABOLISM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITRATE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OUTFLOW; PHOSPHATE; RESIDENCE TIME;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPORATION; FLUID BALANCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAKE; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; PELAGIC SPECIES; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ECOSYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; NITRATES; PHOSPHATES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84857644420     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.01.032     Document Type: Article

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