Predictive Modeling of Lake Eutrophication

Relationship between nutrients and phytoplankton biomass based on chlorophyll prediction model in Zribar Lake of Kurdestan, a case study

Zaribar Lake is a little shallow lake in Kurdistan province of Iran and it is faced to eutrophication.The study of phytoplankton biomass-nutrient relations is important in eutrophication management and there are many empirical models to predict phytoplankton biomass (chlorophyll a) based on nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorous) amounts in the lake. Evaluation of these empirical models and compar...

A Sensitivity and Error Analysis Framework for Lake Eutrophication Modeling]

A framework for sensitivity and error analysis in mathematical modeling is described and demonstrated. The lake Eutrophication Analysis Procedure (LEAP) consists of a series of linked models which predict lake water quality conditions as a function of watershed land use, hydrologic variables, and morphometric variables. Specification of input variables as distributions (means and standard error...

Effects of agriculture, tourism and the dam on eutrophic status of the Zerebar Lake, Iran

The Zerebar Lake is a shallow freshwater lake located in the northwestern Iran. The lake is surrounded by three human activities: agriculture, tourism and dam. The present study aimed to investigate (1) which human activity has the greatest impact on eutrophication of the Zerebar Lake (2) If phytoplankton communities, as the indicator, are correlated with the human activities. Water samples wer...

Effects of agriculture, tourism and the dam on eutrophic status of the Zerebar Lake, Iran

The Zerebar Lake is a shallow freshwater lake located in the northwestern Iran. The lake is surrounded by three human activities: agriculture, tourism and dam. The present study aimed to investigate (1) which human activity has the greatest impact on eutrophication of the Zerebar Lake (2) If phytoplankton communities, as the indicator, are correlated with the human activities. Water samples wer...

Modeling and Managing Shallow Lake Eutrophication