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Chapter 9
A New Regime for Nutrient Turnover

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Use and turnover of nutrients in society

  • Use of nutrients ­ from small and closed to large and open systems 

  • Comparison to natural fluxes of N and P 

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus in agriculture 

  • Nutrient flows in urban areas ­ waste water treatment 

  • Traffic and the energy sector 

  • Influence of landscape changes ­ wetlands 


Eutrophication ­ a global problem

  • Eutrophication means well nourished 

  • Outlook Box 9.1 From local to world-wide problems 

  • Eutrophication in lakes and the marine environment 

  • Nitrogen poisoning of wells 

  • Land eutrophication 

  • Methods Box 9.2 Determination of nutrient export 

  • Methods Box 9.3 Measuring limiting nutrients 

  • The physiological basis for eutrophication ­ limiting nutrients


Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea

  • Nutrient loading 

  • Are N or P limiting nutrients? 

  • Biological consequences of eutrophication 

  • Algal blooms and nitrogen fixation 

  • Bottom oxygen depletion 

  • Eutrophication and fish populations 


Monitoring and modeling nutrient flows

  • Monitoring and computer modeling of pollutants 

  • The European monitoring and modeling regime for air pollutants, EMEP 

  • Nutrient measurements in the Baltic Sea 

  • Turnover of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Baltic Sea ­ the long term prediction 

  • Methods Box 9.4 Mathematical modeling of Baltic Sea eutrophication 


Eutrophication in the future

  • Can large-scale marine eutrophication be stopped? 

  • Influence of population increase, urbanization and over-consumption 

  • Methods Box 9.5 Sustainable nutrient management 

  • Global warming increases eutrophication 

  • Some countermeasures