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Trophic state and water turn-over time in six choked coastal lagoons in Brazil

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Comparison of total phosphorus and chlorophyll-a concentration, nutrient loading, and water turn-over time in six shallow choked lagoons along the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, established that water turn-over time is related to the trophic state of the lagoons with additional anthropogenic nutrient loading affecting this relationship. Turnover time was calculated as a flushing half-life from rainfall, evaporation, runoff, and tidal exchange data, and trophic state was calculated from the quantity and quality of dissolved inorganic nutrients, total phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a standing stock. Flushing half-life of the lagoons ranged between 1 and 27 days, annual phosphorus areal loading from 3 to 18 mg m−2d−1, and chlorophyll-a standing stock from 6 to 160 mg M−2

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  1. Departamento de Geoquimica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, CEP-24.210, Niterói, RJ, Brazil

    Bastiaan Knoppers, Björn Kjerfve & Jean-Pierre Carmouze

  2. Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, Department of Geological Sciences, and Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Björn Kjerfve & Jean-Pierre Carmouze

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Knoppers, B., Kjerfve, B. & Carmouze, JP. Trophic state and water turn-over time in six choked coastal lagoons in Brazil. Biogeochemistry 14, 149–166 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00002903

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