The response of primary producer assemblages to mitigation measures to reduce eutrophication in a temperate estuary
The Mondego estuary is a well-described system located on the North Atlantic Ocean, where cultural eutrophication progressed over the last decades of the 20th century. Consequently, and due to a large productivity of Ulva spp., Zostera noltii meadows were severely reduced with a concomitant decrease...
| Published in: | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10316/5300 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2007.11.002 |
| Summary: | The Mondego estuary is a well-described system located on the North Atlantic Ocean, where cultural eutrophication progressed over the last decades of the 20th century. Consequently, and due to a large productivity of Ulva spp., Zostera noltii meadows were severely reduced with a concomitant decrease in environmental quality. In 1998, experimental mitigation measures were implemented, via changes in hydrology to increase circulation and diversion of nutrient-rich freshwater inflow, to reverse the process in the most affected area of the estuary - its South arm. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WDV-4R5F08P-1/1/178ea3ee141e5cbe0ae832f88308a00a |
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