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3 June 2010 Eutrophication in a Chinese Context: Understanding Various Physical and Socio-Economic Aspects
Chao Gao, Taolin Zhang
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Eutrophication is now a ubiquitous water quality impairment in China. The first step toward restoration of eutrophicated water bodies is a marked reduction of nutrient loadings in their drainage basins. However, the combination of a number of physical and socio-economic factors is now producing compounded increases in nutrient loads while the nutrient assimilation capacities of natural systems are decreasing. Meanwhile, most of the lakes in densely populated part of China are shallow and very susceptible to anthropogenic alteration. Therefore, in spite of ascending efforts in eutrophication control upward trends of algal blooms in both fresh and coastal waters have been observed for the past two decades. Huge knowledge gap exists in our understanding of the sources and pathways of nutrient losses to aquatic ecosystems. Successful water quality restoration of China's eutrophic waters relies not only on more resource input but also more emphasis on basic, integrated, and management-oriented research.

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Chao Gao and Taolin Zhang "Eutrophication in a Chinese Context: Understanding Various Physical and Socio-Economic Aspects," AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 39(6), 385-393, (3 June 2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0040-5
Received: 8 January 2009; Accepted: 11 August 2009; Published: 3 June 2010
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China
Eutrophication
Nutrient loads
water quality management
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