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LAKE AND RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 321-328Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07438141.2011.627625
Keywords
algal biomass; chlorophyll; maximum chlorophyll; Missouri reservoirs
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- Missouri Department of Natural Resources
- Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
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Reducing the magnitude and frequency of peak algal biomass is a common goal of lake management. To better quantify such conditions in Missouri reservoirs, an upper boundary delineating maximum algal chlorophyll (Chl(max)) across the range of total phosphorus (TP) was developed using summer monitoring data (n = 8839) and compared with 2 other Missouri datasets (n = 8188 and 5151). Typically, other factors constrain Chl below the maximum, and most samples contained a fraction of Chl(max). Near maximum conditions (Chl(nm)) were provisionally defined as 70% of Chl(max); individual reservoirs differ in their history of supporting Chl(nm) measurements (from 0 to 43% of samples) irrespective of nutrient status or the duration of summer monitoring. There was a rapid increase in the yield of Chl(max) per unit TP across the oligo-mesotrophic range, while within the eutrophic range Chl(max) varied with changes in TP in a near-unity response. This general pattern was similar for Chl(nm) and provides a basis for predicting how high Chl levels would change with nutrient management. Values of Chl(max) in Missouri reservoirs are lower than lakes in Florida and larger than values in an international dataset, but the rate of change in Chl across the TP range is quite similar among these datasets, suggesting this pattern applies to different lake types.
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