Projecting the impact of regional land-use change and water management policies on lake water quality: an application to periurban lakes and reservoirs.

ABSTRACT: As the human population grows, the demand for living space and supplies of resources also increases, which may induce rapid change in land-use/land-cover (LULC) and associated pressures exerted on aquatic habitats. We propose a new approach to forecast the impact of regional land cover change and water management policies (i.e., targets in nutrient loads reduction) on lake and reservoir water eutrophication status using a model that requires minimal parameterisation compared with alternative methods. This approach was applied to a set of 48 periurban lakes located in the Ile de France region (IDF, France) to simulate catchment-scale management scenarios. Model outputs were subsequently compared to governmental agencies' 2030 forecasts. Our model indicated that the efforts made to reduce pr

SUBMITTER: Catherine A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3753357 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature