BACKGROUND: In recent years new ideas for nutrient management to control eutrophication in estuarine environments have been under consideration. One popular approach being considered in the Chesapeake Bay Program is called the “top down” approach based on the premise that restoring algal predators, such as oysters and menhaden, will limit excess phytoplankton production and possibly eliminate c...

ebria tripartita (schumann) lemmermann, 1899, a non-photosynthetic flagellate was identified from the southern coast of the caspian sea in december 2012. water temperature at the sampling time was 10 ºc.  the abundance of total phytoplankton cells was 3 × 106 cells.l-1, while e. tripartita with 2 × 10 3 cells. l-1 included 0.75% of phytoplankton community. water quality parameters were recorded...

Coastal ecosystems are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic stressors such as harmful algal blooms and hypoxia through the combined effects of eutrophication warming. As a major terrestrial nitrogen source to ocean, rivers play key role in shaping coastal budgets biogeochemical cycling. Combining an enhanced-resolution, global ocean model with temporally changing river inputs, we estimate t...

Plants of Hashilan, a 260 ha freshwater wetland, located at 35 km northwest of Kermanshah, the provincial capital of Kermanshah Province, western Iran, were studied. Altogether, 116 species of plants (77 terrestrial and 39 aquatic) representing 96 genera and 42 families were identified. Asteraceae with 11 genera and 13 species, Poaceae 9 genera and 10 species, and Cyperaceae with 6 genera and 9...

this study investigated the impact of internal nitrogen and phosphorus loading on water qualityof lake chaohu, china. results showed that the overall mean concentration of tn and tp in lake water was1.09±0.84 and 0.15±0.84 (sd) mg/l, respectively, indicating lake chaohu was highly eutrophic during thestudy period. mean benthic flux of nh4 +, no3 -, and po4 3- were 3.56±1.52 mg n/m2/d, -0.14±0.4...

this study investigated the impact of internal nitrogen and phosphorus loading on water qualityof lake chaohu, china. results showed that the overall mean concentration of tn and tp in lake water was1.09±0.84 and 0.15±0.84 (sd) mg/l, respectively, indicating lake chaohu was highly eutrophic during thestudy period. mean benthic flux of nh4 +, no3 -, and po4 3- were 3.56±1.52 mg n/m2/d, -0.14±0.4...

this study investigated the effects of sewage discharge on nutrient concentrations and bod5 levels in the coastal waters and sediments ofthe city of mombasa. the results indicated that nutrient concentrations in tudor, mtwapa and makupa creeks were elevated as compared to concentrations in gazi creek (mean ranges of 0.022-0.039mg/l, 0.038-0.163mg/l and 0.034-0.118mg/lphosphates, nitrates and am...