Titre
Continuity and change in environmental systems: the case of shallow lake ecosystems
Type
article
Institution
Externe
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Lau, SSS
Auteure/Auteur
Lane, SN
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
0309-1333
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2001-06
Volume
25
Numéro
2
Première page
178
Dernière page/numéro d’article
202
Notes
ISI:000168810400002
Résumé
Traditional ideas concerning environmental management tend to be based
upon simple relationships between cause and effect. Such approaches
make the design of environmental management strategies fairly
straightforward: once the cause of a problem has been identified, it is
necessary only to address the cause and/or help the system to recover
through some sort of attempt at restoration. In the case of shallow
lake eutrophication, research in the 1960s and 1970s identified
phosphorus as the key control on the trophic state of a lake and,
hence, recommended reductions in the supply of phosphorus to lakes as
the necessary remedial measure. However, subsequent research has
illustrated that such measures were not always successful. This article
reviews the science of shallow lake eutrophication to demonstrate the
role of ecosystem-specific biological and chemical interactions in
conditioning the response of lakes to remedial measures and, hence,
shows how new ideas of complexity help us to understand the behaviour
of lake ecosystems so that we can develop alternative environmental
management strategies.
upon simple relationships between cause and effect. Such approaches
make the design of environmental management strategies fairly
straightforward: once the cause of a problem has been identified, it is
necessary only to address the cause and/or help the system to recover
through some sort of attempt at restoration. In the case of shallow
lake eutrophication, research in the 1960s and 1970s identified
phosphorus as the key control on the trophic state of a lake and,
hence, recommended reductions in the supply of phosphorus to lakes as
the necessary remedial measure. However, subsequent research has
illustrated that such measures were not always successful. This article
reviews the science of shallow lake eutrophication to demonstrate the
role of ecosystem-specific biological and chemical interactions in
conditioning the response of lakes to remedial measures and, hence,
shows how new ideas of complexity help us to understand the behaviour
of lake ecosystems so that we can develop alternative environmental
management strategies.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_019AB0C50CD2
Date de création
2011-02-03T13:41:04.771Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T20:20:55Z