History, development and characteristics of lake ecological models

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Xu, Fu-liu | Tao, Shu | Dawson, Richard W. | Lu, Xiao-yan

Affiliations: Laboratory for Earth Surface Process and Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. E-mail: xufl@urban.pku.edu.cn

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Abstract: This paper provides some introductory information on the history, development, and characteristics of various lake ecosystem models.The modeling of lake ecological processes began to gain importance in the early 1960s. There are a number of models available today, with varying levels of complexity to cope with the variety of environmental problems found in lake environments, e.g. eutrophication, acidification,oxygen depletion, wetland management, heavy metal and pesticide pollution, as well as hydrodynamic problems. In particular, this paper focuses on lake eutrophication and wetland models, as well as addressing strategies appropriate for the design and development of reliable lake ecological models.

Keywords: lake ecosystem, eutrophication model, wetland model, pollution model

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 255-263, 2002