The long-term response of lake nutrient and chlorophyll concentrations to changes in nutrient loading in Ireland's largest lake, Lough Neagh

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dc.contributor.authorMcElarney, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorRippey, Brian
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Claire
dc.contributor.authorAllen, Michelle
dc.contributor.authorUnwin, Antony
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-07T14:33:58Z
dc.date.available2021-09-07T14:33:58Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-29
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 11 December 2020; Published - 29 April 2021.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe long-term response of chlorophyll-a (chl-a) to changing lake water nutrient concentrations and increasing water temperature was investigated in Lough Neagh, a large, hypereutrophic lake in Northern Ireland. Trends in external and internal nutrient loading and their relation to lake nutrient concentrations were also established. Lake water concentrations of total P (TP) have increased since the 1990s but were not correlated with catchment inputs, which showed no trend. The characteristics of internal loading of P have changed since the mid-1990s, with an earlier and larger mass of P released from the sediments each summer. Catchment inputs of total oxidised N (NOx) decreased from the peak value of 10,186T/yr in 1995 to 5,396T/yr in 2011, coinciding with a reduction in lake water concentrations. External inputs and lake concentrations of NOx were highly correlated (R=0.88). Water temperature increased approximately 1C and was a predictor of variation in chl-a from 1974 to 2012. After the peak chl-a concentration in 1993, dissolved inorganic N (DIN) also became an important predictor, accounting for almost half of the 44% variance explained by a hierarchical partition model. Decreasing log (DIN:TP) ratios suggest that N limitation of chl-a has become more important in the lake recently.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the DAERA, Northern Ireland.en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/350
dc.identifier.citationMcElarney, Rippey, Miller, Allen and Unwin (2021) ‘The long-term response of lake nutrient and chlorophyll concentrations to changes in nutrient loading in Ireland’s largest lake, Lough Neagh’, Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 121B(1), p. 47. doi: 10.3318/bioe.2021.04.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0791-7945
dc.identifier.issn2009-003X (electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3318/BIOE.2021.04
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyal Irish Academyen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s) This is an Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.en_US
dc.titleThe long-term response of lake nutrient and chlorophyll concentrations to changes in nutrient loading in Ireland's largest lake, Lough Neaghen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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