Monitoring of eutrophication by microbial uptake kinetics of dissolved organic matter in waters

✍ Scribed by Humitake Seki

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 242 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6369
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00416696

✦ Synopsis

The monitoring of eutrophication can be performed by measuring the turnover times of amino acids in watermasses using the Wright-Hobbie uptake kinetics approach.

The substrate specificity of amino acids varies greater with turnover times than with sampling location in watermasses with a certain water type. Thus a specific substrate among the essential amino acids should be selected to use for measuring the turnover time, in order to monitor precisely the state of trophic excitation within the steady-state oscillation in a certain aquatic system. On the other hand, either singular or plural substrates among the essential amino acids can be used for measuring the turnover time for the identification of a watermass, relevant to eutrophication.