Despite the initial success of extensive efforts to reduce phosphorus (P) loading to Lake Erie as a part of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Lake Erie appears to be undergoing a re-eutrophication and it is plagued by harmful algal blooms. To offer insights...
This report investigates interannual variability in ice coverage (Bai et al., 2012; Assel et al., 1998; Assel et al., 2013). We conduct analyses of the ice coverage records—freeze-up date, break-up date, duration and annual maximum ice coverage (AMIC)—with air...
The “phosphorus loading concept,” or more generally the “nutrient loading concept,” arose from Richard Vollenweider’s work in the 1960–1970s that showed correlations between phosphorus loads and various eutrophication symptoms. The initial success of target...
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