Characterizing the river water quality in China: Recent progress and on-going challenges

J Huang, Y Zhang, H Bing, J Peng, F Dong, J Gao… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Food production systems, urbanization, and other anthropogenic activities dramatically alter
natural hydrological and nutrient cycles, and are primarily responsible for water quality …

Harmful cyanobacterial blooms: biological traits, mechanisms, risks, and control strategies

L Song, Y Jia, B Qin, R Li… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) impact lakes, estuaries, and freshwater
reservoirs worldwide. The duration, severity, and spread of CyanoHABs have markedly …

Lake heatwaves under climate change

RI Woolway, E Jennings, T Shatwell, M Golub… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Lake ecosystems, and the organisms that live within them, are vulnerable to temperature
change,,,–, including the increased occurrence of thermal extremes. However, very little is …

Urbanization and agriculture intensification jointly enlarge the spatial inequality of river water quality

Y Li, W Mi, L Ji, Q He, P Yang, S Xie, Y Bi - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rivers are severely polluted by multiple anthropogenic stressors. An unevenly distributed
landscape pattern can aggravate the deterioration of water quality in rivers. Identifying the …

[PDF][PDF] Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high-nutrient paradigm

KL Reinl, JD Brookes, CC Carey, TD Harris… - Freshwater …, 2021 - research.utwente.nl
Freshwater cyanobacterial blooms have become ubiquitous, posing major threats to
ecological and public health. 2. Decades of research have focused on understanding drivers …

Microbial diversity and ecological interactions of microorganisms in the mangrove ecosystem: Threats, vulnerability, and adaptations

K Palit, S Rath, S Chatterjee, S Das - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Mangroves are among the world's most productive ecosystems and a part of the “blue
carbon” sink. They act as a connection between the terrestrial and marine ecosystems …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of succession and growth limitation of phytoplankton for nutrients and light in a large shallow lake

X Liu, L Chen, G Zhang, J Zhang, Y Wu, H Ju - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the limiting factors of phytoplankton growth and competition is crucial for the
restoration of aquatic ecosystems. However, the role and synergistic effect of co-varying …

Changes in China's river water quality since 1980: management implications from sustainable development

H Zhang, X Cao, S Huo, C Ma, W Li, Y Liu, Y Tong… - npj Clean Water, 2023 - nature.com
Human activities and climate change threaten water quality in China's rivers. We simulated
the monthly concentrations of riverine total nitrogen (TN), ammonia-nitrogen (NH3-N), total …

Particulate organic matter as causative factor to eutrophication of subtropical deep freshwater: Role of typhoon (tropical cyclone) in the nutrient cycling

X Gao, H Chen, B Gu, E Jeppesen, Y Xue, J Yang - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Intense storms pose a serious threat to ecosystem functioning and services. However, the
effects of typhoons (tropical cyclones) on the biogeochemical processes mediating risk of …

No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes

GM Wilkinson, JA Walter, CD Buelo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Algal blooms, the rapid proliferation of algal biomass often to nuisance or harmful levels,
diminish aquatic ecosystem services. Freshwater blooms can cause substantial economic …