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Application and comparison of two symptom-based eutrophication-assessment methods in Jiaozhou Bay, China

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Increasing numbers of approaches to assess eutrophication, such as estuarine trophic status, the Oslo-Paris Commission Common Procedure, and the Water Framework Directive, focus on the symptoms of eutrophication. In China, however, nutrient index methods dominate the assessment of coastal waters. In this study, an integrated method that includes both water quality and ecological response was compared with the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) Common Procedure. Observation data from Jiaozhou Bay, Shandong, China, were used in a comparison of the two methods in a trophic status study. Overall, both clearly revealed a high level of nutrient enrichment in the bay, indicated by high nutrient concentrations. Though the two methods differed in their methodological design in the assessment of the ecological effects of nutrient enrichment, they have acquired similar results: the integrated method suggested that the status was good, and the NOWPAP Common Procedure suggested that the status was low (indicating that the bay had no serious eutrophication problem). The introduction of filter feeders (shellfish aquaculture) into the bay on a reasonable scale may have been effective in mitigating eutrophic conditions, and perhaps explains the low ecological impacts there. Our results will be useful to ecosystem-based eutrophication management in the bay and in similar areas.

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7 Acknowledgement

The authors thank the Jiaozhou Bay Ecosystem Monitoring Station for providing the observation data. We thank Liwen Bianji, Edanz Editing China (https://doi.org/www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Zaixing Wu, Zhiming Yu, Xiuxian Song, Xihua Cao & Yongquan Yuan

  2. Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China

    Zaixing Wu, Zhiming Yu, Xiuxian Song, Xihua Cao & Yongquan Yuan

  3. Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Zaixing Wu, Zhiming Yu, Xiuxian Song, Xihua Cao & Yongquan Yuan

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Zhiming Yu & Xiuxian Song

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6 Data Availability Statement

Some data in this study are from published data, as stated above in the Materials and Methods section. Some data that support the findings of this study are available from Jiaozhou Bay Ecosystem Monitoring Station. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and are not publicly available. Data are, however, available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of Jiaozhou Bay Ecosystem Monitoring Station.

Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFE0101500), the Aoshan Talents Cultivation Program (No. 2017ASTCP-OS16), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFC1404306), and the NSFC-Shandong Joint Fund for the Marine Science Research Center (No. U1606404)

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Wu, Z., Yu, Z., Song, X. et al. Application and comparison of two symptom-based eutrophication-assessment methods in Jiaozhou Bay, China. J. Ocean. Limnol. 37, 1582–1594 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-019-8099-8

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