Scientific Results

This catalogue is obtained by conducting a systematic literature review of scientific studies and reviews related to monitoring, forecasting, and simulating the inland water cycle. The analysis maps scientific expertise across research groups and classifies findings by the type of inland water studied, application focus, and geographical scope. A gap analysis will identify missing research areas and assess their relevance to policymaking.

ID ā–² Type Year Authors Title Venue/Journal DOI Research type Water System Technical Focus Abstract Link with Projects Link with Tools Related policies ID
publications-101 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2011 Dong, X. Nutrients exert a stronger control than climate on recent diatom communities in Esthwaite Water: evidence from monitoring and palaeolimnological records. 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02670.x Uncategorized Uncategorized Summary1.ā€‚A longā€term monitoring programme on phytoplankton and physicochemical characteristics of Esthwaite Water (England) that started in 1945 provides a rare opportunity to understand the effects of climate and nutrients on a lake ecosystem.2.ā€‚Monitoring records show that the lake experienced nutrient enrichment from the early 1970s, particularly after 1975, associated with inputs from a local sewage treatment plant, resulting in marked increases in concentration of soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP). Climatic variables, such as air temperature (AirT) and rainfall, exhibit high variability with increasing trends after 1975.3.ā€‚Diatom analyses of an integrated 210Pbā€dated lake sediment core from Esthwaite Water, covering the period from 1945 to 2004, showed that fossil diatoms exhibited distinct compositional change in response to nutrient enrichment.4.ā€‚Redundancy analysis (RDA) based on diatom and environmental data sets over the past 60ā€ƒyears showed that the most important variables explaining diatom species composition were winter concentrations of SRP, followed by AirT, independently explaining 22% and 8% of the diatom variance, respectively.5.ā€‚Additive models showed that winter SRP was the most important factor controlling the diatom assemblages for the whole monitoring period. AirT had little effect on the diatom assemblages when nutrient levels were low prior to 1975. With the increase in nutrient availability during the eutrophication phase after 1975, climate became more important in regulating the diatom community, although SRP was still the major controlling factor.6.ā€‚The relative effects of climate and nutrients on diatom communities vary depending on the timescale. RDA and additive model revealed that climate contributed little to diatom dynamics at an annual or decadal scale.7.ā€‚The combination of monitoring and palaeolimnological records employed here offers the opportunity to explore how nutrients and climate have affected a lake ecosystem over a range of timescales. This dual approach can potentially be extended to much longer timescales (e.g. centuries), where longā€term, reliable observational records exist. 226273
publications-102 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2011 Carstensen, J. Connecting the dots: responses of coastal ecosystems to changing nutrient concentrations 10.1021/es202351y Data Management & Analytics Natural Water Bodies No abstract available 226273
publications-103 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2010 Borja, A. Medium and long-term recovery of estuarine and coastal ecosystems: patterns, rates and restoration effectiveness 10.1007/s12237-010-9347-5 Data Management & Analytics Uncategorized No abstract available 226273
publications-104 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2011 Steckbauer, A. Ecosystem impacts on hypoxia: thresholds of hypoxia and pathways to recovery 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/025003 Uncategorized Uncategorized No abstract available 226273
publications-105 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2011 Jurgensone, I. Long-term changes and controlling factors of phytoplankton community in the Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea) 10.1007/s12237-011-9402-x Uncategorized Natural Water Bodies No abstract available 226273
publications-106 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2011 Atkins, J.P. Management of the marine environment: Integrating ecosystem services and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.12.012 Data Management & Analytics Natural Water Bodies No abstract available 226273
publications-107 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2012 Pascual, M. What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary? 10.1016/j.watres.2011.10.053 Data Management & Analytics Natural Water Bodies No abstract available 226273
publications-108 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2010 Carstensen, J. Censored data regression: Statistical methods for analyzing Secchi transparency in shallow systems 10.4319/lom.2010.8.376 Data Management & Analytics Natural Water Bodies Secchi depth monitoring in shallow ecosystems occasionally records sight to the bottom and thus the true Secchi depth is larger than the observed. In such cases Secchi depth data are censored. Despite that statistical methods for analyzing such censored data have existed for many decades and have been widely used in other disciplines, the censoring problem has been completely overlooked in aquatic ecology. Here, I have presented and exemplified a statistical regression technique (Censored Data Regression, CDR) that specifically addresses censored data, and compared resulting estimates of mean and standard error of Secchi depth distributions with those of statistical methods commonly applied in the literature. Standard methods increasingly underestimated both mean and standard error of Secchi depths as the proportion of censored data increased. Analysis of measured Secchi depths from four coastal sites in Denmark, representing 29% to 80% censored data, documented substantial biases in distribution means (up to 2 m), and standard errors (50 %) when censoring was not accounted for. This had significant repercussions for the estimation of trends and seasonal patterns of Secchi depths, in the worst case actually reporting no significant trend when a trend was actually present. Consequently, there is a need to introduce CDR as a more appropriate method for analyzing Secchi depths in shallow lakes and coastal ecosystems. More generally, the objective of this study was to raise the awareness of the censoring problem and to promote appropriate statistical methods for analyzing censored ecological data. 226273
publications-109 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2011 Angeler, D.G. Revealing the Organization of Complex Adaptive Systems throughMultivariate Time Series Modeling 10.5751/es-04175-160305 Uncategorized Uncategorized No abstract available 226273
publications-110 PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE 2010 Borja, A. Marine management ā€“ towards an integrated implementation of the European Marine Strategy Framework and the Water Framework Directives 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.09.026 Uncategorized Natural Water Bodies No abstract available 226273