Response of phytoplankton to protective-restoration treatments enhancing water quality in a shallow urban lake

What is it about?

We investigated the effect of storm water pretreatment separators and a fountain-based water aeration system which were installed as protective-restoration measures to enhance water quality on phytoplankton dynamics and physicochemical properties in the littoral and pelagial zones.

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Why is it important?

Our results showed that introducing these restoration measures influence on the long-term succession of phytoplankton and induced the change from a polytrophic to eutrophic state, and that such measures are vitally important in future considerations of shallow urban lake management.