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- Title
Reconstruction of the Time Series of the Underwater Light Climate in a Shallow Turbid Lake.
- Authors
Anu Reinart; Tiia Pedusaar
- Abstract
Abstract Lake Ülemiste is a shallow, eutrophic lake which has served the city of Tallinn as a water reservoir for many centuries. Its light climate was studied by combining a routinely measured data set with a modelling approach. For 26 years (1978–2004), data was collected on such optically active substances (OAS) and water parameters as water colour, turbidity and phytoplankton biomass. Simple modelling enabled the quantification of long-term time-series data and the subsequent calculation of the diffuse attenuation coefficient, euphotic depth and average light of the mixed layer. Several changes in the hydrological cycle have taken place during the period under study, among which are an increase in the water level of about 0.5 m and a decrease in the external water load from 108 million m3 year−1 to about 25 million m3 year−1. At the same time euphotic depth has shown a distinct trend towards increasing since the early 1990s. The euphotic depth also showed an increase (from 1.1 to 1.4 m) due to an improvement in underwater light conditions – mainly in the spring (April and May) and autumn (October and November) because of the lower amount of dissolved organic matter in the lake. The average light availability in the mixed layer has increased, but this has not affected the phytoplankton biomass as the latter is not light-limited during the summer period.
- Subjects
ULEMISTE Lake (Estonia); ESTONIA; UNDERWATER light climate; HYDROLOGIC cycle
- Publication
Aquatic Ecology, 2008, Vol 42, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1386-2588
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10452-006-9056-0