Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/M/S/2002/00110
Assessing lake eutrophication using chironomids: understanding the nature and timing of community response in different lake types.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor P Langdon, University of Exeter, Geography
- Grant held at:
- University of Exeter, Geography
- Science Area:
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Freshwater
- ENRIs:
- Pollution and Waste
- Natural Resource Management
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Water Quality
- Pollution
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Palaeoenvironments
- Abstract:
- Eutrophication is at present affecting global freshwaters on an unprecedented scale. A suite of UK lake types, exhibiting a range of trophic states, have already been cored and the sediments analysed physically, geochemically and geochronologically. No biological analyses have previously been undertaken on the sediments. Chironomid communities respond to a range of lake processes depending upon lake typology and hence can be used to reconstruct phosphorus, dissolved oxygen and chlorophyll-a levels using a range of pre-existing transfer functions. These parameters will be correlated with the known sediment and catchment data, enabling the differences in timing, nature and magnitude of response in different lake types to be elucidated.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/M/S/2002/00110
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- New Investigators Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- New Investigators
This grant award has a total value of £51,974
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £32,570 | £2,669 | £1,754 | £14,982 |
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