Phosphorus removal from eutrophic lakes using periphyton on submerged artificial substrata
Phosphorus removal from eutrophic lakes using periphyton on submerged artificial substrata
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DOI:
10.1007/s10750-004-2337-5
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发表时间:
2004-10
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2.6
通讯作者:
Angelika Jöbgen;A. Palm;M. Melkonian
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作者:
Angelika Jöbgen;A. Palm;M. Melkonian
The potential of periphyton for phosphorus removal from lakes has been investigated using a novel method involving polypropylene (PP) substrate carriers submerged in the pelagial. The study area Lake 'Fühlinger See' in Cologne (Germany) is a complex of mesoeutrophic gravel pit lakes. The whole site is intensively used as a recreation area. Visitors are thought to be the most important single contributors to lake eutrophication. Carriers were exposed at different depths (2, 3.5, 5 m), for different time intervals (1–8 months) and from March to November PP-sheets were readily colonised by periphyton and a biofilm consisting mainly of benthic diatoms developed. Seasonal variability of periphyton on substrates was observed since filamentous green algae colonised the artificial substrates mainly between July and November. Chlorophyllacontent of periphyton on the PP-fleece was up to 240-fold higher than chlorophyll a concentrations in the same volume in the epilimnion. Up to around 100 mg of total phosphorus per m2PP-fleece was bound and can be eliminated from the lake by removal of the substrate carriers together with the periphyton after four months of exposure. Though large-scale validations are needed, this method may be applicable as a technique to harvest phosphorus from the water column in larger-scale settings.