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| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1038/s41467-024-45115-3 |
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| Title (Primary) | Consistent stoichiometric long-term relationships between nutrients and chlorophyll-a across shallow lakes |
| Author | Graeber, D.; McCarthy, M.J.; Shatwell, T.; Borchardt, D.; Jeppesen, E.; Søndergaard, M.; Lauridsen, T.L.; Davidson, T.A. |
| Source Titel | Nature Communications |
| Year | 2024 |
| Department | ASAM; SEEFO |
| Volume | 15 |
| Page From | art. 809 |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes T4 Coastal System |
| Data and Software links | https://doi.org/10.5063/F1RV0M1S |
| Supplements | https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-024-45115-3/MediaObjects/41467_2024_45115_MOESM1_ESM.pdf https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-024-45115-3/MediaObjects/41467_2024_45115_MOESM2_ESM.pdf https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-024-45115-3/MediaObjects/41467_2024_45115_MOESM3_ESM.pdf |
| Keywords | Ecosystem ecology; Environmental monitoring; Freshwater ecology; Limnology |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=28711 |
| Graeber, D., McCarthy, M.J., Shatwell, T., Borchardt, D., Jeppesen, E., Søndergaard, M., Lauridsen, T.L., Davidson, T.A. (2024): Consistent stoichiometric long-term relationships between nutrients and chlorophyll-a across shallow lakes Nat. Commun. 15 , art. 809 10.1038/s41467-024-45115-3 |
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