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ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2021

Review of characterization, factors, impacts, and solutions of Lake eutrophication: lesson for lake Tana, Ethiopia.

Hailu Sheferaw Ayele, Minaleshewa Atlabachew

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Review in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
17.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Hailu Sheferaw AyeleVisiting Researcher in ENEA Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, ENEA, Research Center of Saluggia, Strada per Crescentino, 13040, Saluggia, VC, Italy. hayele02@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2963-7991
Minaleshewa AtlabachewDepartment of Chemistry, College of Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3261-8326
Bahir Dar University · ETNational Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lake eutrophication and water quality deterioration have become a major environmental problem in urban areas and fertilized basins in developing countries across the world. This paper reviews the characterization, driving factors, and impacts of lake eutrophication as well as the mechanism of preventing and recovering lake eutrophication with case studies of eutrophic lakes across the world including Lake Tana, Ethiopia. In most waterbodies including lakes and reservoirs, total phosphorus concentration, chlorophyll a concentration, and Secchi disk visibility in association with species composition are the common criteria to classify lakes and reservoir as oligotrophic, mesotrophic, and eutrophic. Nutrient-rich runoff from cultivated land and industrialized and urbanized cities concentrated in phosphorus are the critical factors that drove eutrophication in water bodies. Among others, controlling external loading of nutrient, ecological, and mechanical methods were found to be common mechanisms to prevent and recover lake eutrophication. Avoiding the factors that are under human control, i.e., a reduction of external loading of nutrients especially targeted on phosphorus reduction into the water basins, relocates sewage, industrial and domestic waste discharges to be lined out of the catchment of the lake. Furthermore, motivating the community to use less phosphorus-containing fertilizers and promoting phosphorus-free detergents are suggested solutions to sustainably prevent and reduce eutrophication in the long run. These could be some possible measures to safeguard endangered Lake Tana of Ethiopia.

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Environmental MonitoringLakesChinaChlorophyll ACitiesEthiopiaEutrophicationHumansNitrogenPhosphorusChlorophyll ANitrogenPhosphorusAlgal bloomEutrophicationNutrient enrichmentPlankton biomassSelf-purificationTrophic status

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PMID33517530
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