Effects of anthropogenic activities on long-term changes of nitrogen budget in a plain river network region: A case study in the Taihu Basin

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 645; pp. 1212 - 1220
• Main Authors: Huishu, Lian, Qiuliang, Lei, Xinyu, Zhang, Haw, Yen, Hongyuan, Wang, Limei, Zhai, Hongbin, Liu, Huang, Jr-Chuan, Tianzhi, Ren, Jiaogen, Zhou, Weiwen, Qiu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.12.2018
• Subjects: Anthropogenic activities; basins; case studies; China; decision making; empirical models; Eutrophication; Export coefficient model; freshwater lakes; municipal wastewater; nitrogen; Nitrogen budget; Non-point source pollution; nonpoint source pollution; pollutants; pollution load; population density; population growth; rivers; Taihu Basin; urban areas; urbanization; China; Non-point source pollution; Taihu Basin; Anthropogenic activities; Nitrogen budget; Export coefficient model; Eutrophication

Over recent decades, Taihu Lake, the third largest freshwater lake in China, has borne the brunt of intensive human activities. Non-point source pollutants and discharges of domestic wastewater are now the main cause of eutrophication. To control non-point source pollution, it is useful to have a go...