Management of Eutrophication for Lakes Subject to Potentially Irreversible Change

Carpenter, S. R., Ludwig, D., & Brock, W. A. (1999). Management of Eutrophication for Lakes Subject to Potentially Irreversible Change. Ecological Applications, 9(3), 751-771.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1999

DOI

10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0751:moefls

Link

https://doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0751:MOEFLS]2.0.CO;2

Cited from

political_science, systems_cybernetics

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Overshoot and Collapse
  • In ecology, the canonical case is eutrophication: nutrient runoff (nitrogen, phosphorus) is beneficial to a water body at low levels, supporting productivity, but past the assimilation ceiling it drives an algal bloom; the bloom's decay is the self-amplifying load that consumes dissolved oxygen — the secondary resource — and the resulting hypoxic dead zone is hysteretic, persisting even after nutrient loading is cut because internal sediment release and the collapsed food web sustain the low-oxygen regime.
• Regime Change
  • Instead of listing dozens of individual changes (price rose, employment fell, investor sentiment shifted), regime change bundles them as symptoms of a unified shift in the governing feedback structure, a perspective Carpenter, Ludwig, and Brock (1999) develop in their analysis of management of eutrophication for lakes subject to alternative stable states.

    This sourceFrames lake regime shifts as unified feedback-structure transitions rather than collections of correlated variables; develops control strategies for managing systems with multiple stable states.

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