The response of primary producer assemblages to mitigation measures to reduce e...

• Author(s): Leston, S. ; Lillebø, A. I. ; Pardal, M. A.
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/5300
• Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Zostera noltii; Gracilaria; nitrogen; phosphorus; eutrophication
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

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