Coastal watersheds support more than one half of the world's human population and are
experiencing unprecedented urban, agricultural, and industrial expansion. The freshwater …

Measures to reduce eutrophication have often led to a more effective decline of phosphorus
(P) than nitrogen (N) concentrations. The resultant changes in riverine nutrient loads can …

Aquatic primary productivity is frequently limited by the availability of nutrients. The ability to
identify factors limiting algal growth is of considerable importance to our understanding of …

In ecology, the enumeration of living aquatic unicellular protists is a century-old complicated
task. The organisms are small, perhaps motile, and if they are non-motile their vitality is hard …

We report nutrient addition bioassays at 18 stations in Chesapeake Bay (USA) to assess
resources limiting phytoplankton growth. Data were pooled from several sampling programs …

Eutrophication due to high anthropogenic nutrient loading has greatly impacted ecological
processes in marine coastal waters and, therefore, much effort has been put into reducing …

We investigated long‐term trends (1965–2002) in dissolved inorganic nutrients in the tidal
part of the Scheldt estuary (Belgium, The Netherlands). Annually averaged concentrations of …

This paper presents the results of 7 years of integrated monitoring along the Scheldt estuary.
The combination of two datasets resulted in a full description of the estuaries water quality …

According to Stokes' law, colony formation in phytoplankton would lead to enhanced sinking
rates and higher sedimentation losses if colonies had the same densities as the …

Exchangeable phosphate represents a reservoir of bioavailable phosphorus, since it can be
rapidly released into a water body when the soluble phosphate concentration decreases. In …