- Title
- Evaluating The Potential Contribution Of Episodic Toxicity Data To Environmental Water Quality Management In South Africa
- Creator
- Gordon, Andrew K, Mantel, Sukhmani K, Muller, Nikite W J
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438310
- Identifier
- vital:73450
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-4312-0070-2
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/KV259-10.pdf
- Description
- An important aspect of the dynamics of nutrients and pollutants in natural systems is captured in the concept of allochthony, founded on the observation that nutrients and energy in a variety of forms are transferred between adjacent habitats, com-munities and ecosystems that are not routinely considered as connected. Different forms of nutrients and energy move across the conceptual boundaries of habitats via organisms’ activities or physical processes such as wind or water currents, and these transfers can represent important food subsidies. Such cross-partition ecolog-ical subsidies can augment the nutritional condition, biomass and biodiversity of communities, particularly where local production (or autochthony) alone may be inadequate to support local food webs. Furthermore, organic subsidies can influ-ence population dynamics, community interactions and ecosystem processes, and can represent dominant flux inputs in ecosystem budgets. Our intention was to explore organic nutrient fluxes in relation to a primarily lotic (i.e. flowing) aquatic sys-tem at the scale of a hydrological catchment.
- Format
- 60 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Gordon, AK, Mantel, SK and Muller, NWJ. 2011. Evaluating The Potential Contribution Of Episodic Toxicity Data To Environmental Water Quality Management In South Africa. Water Research Commission
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- Rights
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