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Effect of terminal electron acceptors on biogeochemical processess and phosphorus cycle in sediment
Jan, Jiří ; Borovec, Jakub ; Petráš, D. ; Osafo, Nana O. A. ; Tomková, Iva ; Hubáček, Tomáš
This study focuses on the phosphorus (P) release from sediment of inflow part of Vranov reservoir under different availability of terminal electron acceptors, mainly dissolved O2 and NO3-. To understand the cycling of P in sediments, sediment cores were incubated for five weeks in three parallel variations that simulated: i) anoxia with depleted NO3-, ii) O2 saturated water column and iii) O2 saturated water column in the presence of high concentrations of NO3-. Evaluating the release of P and the impact of Iron (Fe) and its metabolism in sediment under the different conditions, water above the sediments was monitored, porewater composition and different P fractions in the sediment were analyzed.
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Phosphorus concentration in the Orlík and Slapy reservoirs: a result of socio-economic trends in the catchment and climate change
Hejzlar, Josef ; Jarošík, Jiří ; Kopáček, Jiří ; Vystavna, Yuliya
Based on existing phosphorus data series in the Slapy and Orlík reservoirs and their main tributaries, we reconstructed P inputs to the reservoirs from the catchment during 1961–2016 and compiled\nempirical models of P retention. P concentrations in both reservoirs increased from the 1960s to 1991 and then declined, with the Slapy Reservoir having a significantly increased year-on-year\nvariability. Trends in the increase and decrease of P reflected the socio-economic development in the Vltava river basin, in particular sewerage, wastewater discharges, fertilizer application, livestock,\nand fishpond fisheries. In the Slapy reservoir after 1991, the P concentrations increased during wet summers and created conditions for growth of phytoplankton, whereas in dry summers they\ndecreased to mesotrophy. Climatic and hydrological processes have now apparently begun to compete with a generally decreasing P pollution and support eutrophication despite the drop in P loads from the catchment.
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