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Impacts of hydrodynamic disturbance on sediment resuspension, phosphorus and phosphatase release, and cyanobacterial growth in Lake Tai

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The objective of this study was to link hydrodynamic disturbance with sediment resuspension, phosphorus release, and algal growth in Lake Tai, a typical shallow lake located in the south of the Yangtze River Delta in China. With this regard, a sediment–water-algae laboratory experiment was conducted and extrapolated to the real situation in terms of field observations. The results show that the algal growth rate synchronically increased with dissolved total phosphorus (DTP) release rate. The DTP decreased with increase of bottom flow velocity, indicating that the phosphorus release rate was lower than its transfer rate into algal biomass. While all levels of hydrodynamic disturbances could increase sediment resuspension and phosphorus release, a low to moderate disturbance was beneficial, but a strong disturbance was harmful for algal growth. Also, a low to moderate disturbance caused the dissolved alkaline phosphatase activity (DAPA) to increase with time, which provided the enzyme for hydrolyzing a variety of organic phosphorus compounds from bed sediment into algae-needed nutritional DTP. The experiment proved to be an efficient means to understanding eutrophication mechanisms of large shallow lakes such as Lake Tai.

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Acknowledgments

This study was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)’s project on the Effect of Hydrology and Hydrodynamic on Eutrophication in Chinese Shallow Lakes (41473110), the Water Pollution Control and Management of Major Projects (WPCMMP) Committee of China (2012ZX07101-002), and the Integrated Technology for Water Pollution Control and Remediation at Watershed Scale and its Benefit Assessment (2014ZX07510-001). Also, the China Scholarship Council (CSC) provided the primary author (Huang) with a scholarship to support a joint Ph.D. studentship at Old Dominion University in the USA. We would like to thank our colleagues at the Groundwater and Environmental Systems Engineering Innovation Base of the Chinese Research Academy of Environment Sciences (CRAES).

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  1. Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Jian Huang

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    Qiujin Xu, Beidou Xi, Shouliang Huo, Xunfeng Xia, Tiantian Jiang, Danfeng Ji & Hongliang Liu

  3. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529-0241, USA

    Jian Huang & Xixi Wang

  4. Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, China

    Weiping Li

  5. Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Nanjing, China

    Guang Gao

  6. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China

    Keli Jia

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Huang, J., Xu, Q., Xi, B. et al. Impacts of hydrodynamic disturbance on sediment resuspension, phosphorus and phosphatase release, and cyanobacterial growth in Lake Tai. Environ Earth Sci 74, 3945–3954 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4083-6

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