Eutrophication, Silica Depletion, and Predicted Changes in Algal Quality in Lake Michigan

作者：Claire L. Schelske, Eugene Filmore Stoermer · 发表于：Science · 年份：1971 · DOI：10.1126/science.173.3995.423 · 被引用次数：351 · 研究领域：Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics、Marine and coastal ecosystems、Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior

Accelerated eutrophication stimulated by pollution inputs is causing silica depletion in the surface waters of Lake Michigan during summer stagnation. Limitation of the reproduction of the presently dominant phytoplankton organisms, which require silica, may lead to drastic and, on the whole, undesirable changes in the ecosystem.