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Drinking water reservoir Nýrsko - influence of macrophytes on water quality
Hejzlar, Josef ; Hohausová, Eva ; Komárková, Jaroslava ; Kopáček, Jiří ; Peterka, Jiří ; Duras, J.
The importance of macrophytes in P cycling was studied in Nýrsko Reservoir, an oligotrophic water body in western Bohemia. A comparison of the external P loading with the P content in macrophytes of Nýrsko Reservoir in 2004 demonstrated that macrophytes can play a significant role in P-cycling also in deep, pelagial-dominated water bodies on condition that the external P loading is low and macrophytes have appropriate conditions for their growth (mainly small extent of water level fluctuation). Nýrsko Reservoir is an apparent example of situations from limnological textbooks when macrophytes function as a stabilizer of the aquatic ecosystem with an efficient zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton allowing suitable water quality for drinking water production.
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The fluorescence assay of aminopeptidase activity as an alterantive indicator of water quality?
Vrba, Jaroslav ; Svoboda, J. ; Fuksa, J. K.
Recent water quality/pollution control uses standard chemical, biological or microbiological indicators that provide information on water status with a delay of several days. Though they characterise direct impact of released compounds on water quality in a recipient, they do not well reflect consequent reaction of the ecosystem on increased pollution. Following the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC we focused on such alternative microbial indicators that would allow for instant evaluation of ecological status of running waters and ongoing in-stream processes. Recently, activities of different extracellular enzymes have been suggested as indicators of both trophic status of lakes and organic or faecal pollution of streams. This contribution evaluates an indication potential of the extracellular aminopeptidase assay.
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