Skarbovik, Eva and Aroviita, Jukka and Fölster, Jens and Solheim, Anne Lyche and Kyllmar, Katarina and Rankinen, Katri and Kronvang, Brian
(2020).
Comparing nutrient reference concentrations in Nordic countries with focus on lowland rivers.
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment. 49
, 1771-1783
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Abstract
Reference conditions of water bodies are defined as the natural or minimal anthropogenically disturbed state. We compared the methods for determining total phosphorus and total nitrogen concentrations in rivers in Finland, Norway and Sweden as well as the established reference conditions and evaluated the possibility for transfer and harmonisation of methods. We found that both methods and values differed, especially for lowland rivers with a high proportion of agriculture in the catchment. Since Denmark has not yet set reference conditions for rivers, two of the Nordic methods were tested for Danish conditions. We conclude that some of the established methods are promising but that further development is required. We moreover argue that harmonisation of reference conditions is needed to obtain common benchmarks for assessing the impacts of current and future land use changes on water quality.
Authors/Creators: | Skarbovik, Eva and Aroviita, Jukka and Fölster, Jens and Solheim, Anne Lyche and Kyllmar, Katarina and Rankinen, Katri and Kronvang, Brian | ||||||
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Title: | Comparing nutrient reference concentrations in Nordic countries with focus on lowland rivers | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
Volume: | 49 | ||||||
Page range: | 1771-1783 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||||
ISSN: | 0044-7447 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507) (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources | ||||||
Keywords: | Nordic, Nutrients, Reference conditions, Rivers, WFD | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-108088 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-108088 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 17812 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Soil and Environment (S) > Dept. of Soil and Environment | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 14 Oct 2020 15:00 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:46 |
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