A Contribution to the Phosphorus Loading Concept

✍ Scribed by Dr. Jürgen Benndorf

• Book ID: 102869810
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 677 KB
• Volume: 64
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-2944
• DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19790640203

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

For the application of the empirical model of Vollenweider and Dillon (1974). and Vollenweider (1976). to reservoirs, the critical phosphorus loading levels have been related to dissolved orthophosphate. 19 reservoirs and primary reservoirs are in optimum accordance with the extended model. To permit the use of the model also in the range of very short residence times, an extremely simple analytical model of phytoplankton growth has been introduced. The reliability of the resulting outwash limits has been checked by means of random sampling at two primary reservoirs. Among 17 samples only 1 does not fit into the model.