Hotspots and main drivers of fecal pollution in Neusiedler See, a large shallow lake in Central Europe.

ABSTRACT: To minimize the risk of negative consequences for public health from fecal pollution in lakes, the continuous surveillance of microbiological water quality parameters, alongside other environmental variables, is necessary at defined bathing sites. Such routine surveillance may prove insufficient to elucidate the main drivers of fecal pollution in a complex lake/watershed ecosystem, and it may be that more comprehensive monitoring activities are required. In this study, the aims were to identify the hotspots and main driving factors of fecal pollution in a large shallow Central European lake, the Neusiedler See, and to determine to what degree its current monitoring network can be considered representative spatially. A stochastic and geostatistical analysis of a huge data set of water quali

SUBMITTER: Hatvani IG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6153677 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature