Consistent stoichiometric long-term relationships between nutrients and chlorophyll-a across shallow lakes.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
27 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024
Historique:
received:
31
07
2023
accepted:
15
01
2024
medline:
28
1
2024
pubmed:
28
1
2024
entrez:
27
1
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Aquatic ecosystems are threatened by eutrophication from nutrient pollution. In lakes, eutrophication causes a plethora of deleterious effects, such as harmful algal blooms, fish kills and increased methane emissions. However, lake-specific responses to nutrient changes are highly variable, complicating eutrophication management. These lake-specific responses could result from short-term stochastic drivers overshadowing lake-independent, long-term relationships between phytoplankton and nutrients. Here, we show that strong stoichiometric long-term relationships exist between nutrients and chlorophyll a (Chla) for 5-year simple moving averages (SMA, median R² = 0.87) along a gradient of total nitrogen to total phosphorus (TN:TP) ratios. These stoichiometric relationships are consistent across 159 shallow lakes (defined as average depth < 6 m) from a cross-continental, open-access database. We calculate 5-year SMA residuals to assess short-term variability and find substantial short-term Chla variation which is weakly related to nutrient concentrations (median R² = 0.12). With shallow lakes representing 89% of the world's lakes, the identified stoichiometric long-term relationships can globally improve quantitative nutrient management in both lakes and their catchments through a nutrient-ratio-based strategy.
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pubmed: 38280872
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45115-3
pii: 10.1038/s41467-024-45115-3
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Eesti Teadusagentuur (Estonian Research Council)
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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