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Hypolimnetic oxygen depletion rates in deep lakes: Effects of trophic state and organic matter accumulation

Alfred Johny Wüest, Robert Vincent Schwefel, Beat Mueller

This study investigated the consumption of oxygen (O-2) in 11 European lakes ranging from 48 m to 372 m deep. In lakes less than similar to 100 m deep, the main pathways for O-2 consumption were organic matter (OM) mineralization at the sediment surface an ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2020

FCC Physics Opportunities: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 1

Manuel Bauer, Luca Rossi, Thomas Rizzo, François Robert, Jean-Michel Sallese, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Benedikt Moser, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Bernhard Auchmann, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Nicolas Andreini, Alban Sublet, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Yu Bai, Jorg Wenninger, Michele Cascella, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Tatiana Pieloni, Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia, Rui Ning Wang, Leonid Rivkin, Hua Zhang, Xavier Buffat, Mingkui Wang, Andrea Wulzer, Martin Vogel, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Sandra Aumon, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Roberto Franceschini, Karin Irmgard Löw, Lucia Jimenez Rojo, Jie Gao, Giuseppe Montenero, Marco Drewes, Craig Nowell, Peter Michael Vogel, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Jairo Camilo Quijano Perez, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Accelerated Water Quality Improvement during Oligotrophication in Peri-Alpine Lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller

Monitoring of four eutrophic Swiss lakes undergoing oligotrophication during more than 25 years (i.e., gradually decreasing nutrient loading, productivity, and associated symptoms of eutrophication) revealed that phosphorus (P) net sedimentation rates (the ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Hypolimnetic Oxygen Depletion in Eutrophic Lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller

The oxygen-consuming processes in the hypolimnia of freshwater lakes leading to deep-water anoxia are still not well understood, thereby constraining suitable management concepts. This study presents data obtained from 11 eutrophic lakes and suggests a mod ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Hypolimnetic oxygen consumption by sediment-based reduced substances in former eutrophic lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller, Martin Schmid

We quantified the areal hypolimnetic mineralization rate (AHM; total areal hypolimnetic oxygen depletion including the formation of reduced substances) in two formerly eutrophic lakes based on 20 yr of water-column data collected during oligotrophication. ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2010

Balancing nutrient inputs to Lake Kivu

Natacha Tofield-Pasche, Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller, Martin Schmid

The primary production in meromictic Lake Kivu is sustained by external nutrient inputs and by internal loading due to upwelling caused by sub-aquatic sources. We present here the results of external loading of phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N) and silica (Si) ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2009

Physical and biogeochemical limits to internal nutrient loading of meromictic Lake Kivu

Bernhard Wehrli, Natacha Tofield-Pasche, Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller, Martin Schmid

Lake Kivu is one of the large African Rift lakes situated between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. In its permanently stratified hypolimnion, unusually high methane concentrations have increased further in recent decades. Because methanogen ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2009

Present and past bio-available phosphorus budget in the ultra-oligotrophic Lake Brienz

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller

A detailed budget of the fluxes of bio-available phosphorus (bio-P) was established for the ultra-oligotrophic Lake Brienz (Switzerland) and its catchment. Lake Brienz is a cold, deep oligotrophic peri-alpine lake that receives an annual load of approximat ...

Birkhauser Verlag Ag2007

Effects of alpine hydropower operations on primary production in a downstream lake

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller, Martin Schmid

During the past century, the construction of hydropower dams in the watershed of Lake Brienz has significantly altered the dynamics of turbidity, which has important implications for lake productivity. To assess these effects, we measured in situ carbon as ...

Birkhauser Verlag Ag2007

Eutrophication of ancient Lake Ohrid: Global warming amplifies detrimental effects of increased nutrient inputs

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller, Martin Schmid

Lake Ohrid in southeastern Europe is one of the few ancient, long-lived lakes of the world, and contains more than 200 endemic species. On the basis of integrated monitoring of internal and external nutrient fluxes, a progressing eutrophication was detecte ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2007

Phosphate adsorption by mineral weathering particles in oligotrophic waters of high particle content

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller

We investigated the interactions of dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) and dissolved nonreactive phosphorus (DNRP) with suspended and settled aquatic particles. The sorption to minerogenic particles from an alpine catchment collected in rivers, hydropower ...

Amer Geophysical Union2006

Is phosphorus retention in autochthonous lake sediments controlled by oxygen or phosphorus?

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller

Eutrophication of various lakes on the Swiss Plateau was targeted in the 1980s by reducing external nutrient loading and installing aeration/oxygenation systems. For five eutrophic lakes, three of which have been artificially oxygenated and aerated for alm ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2006