Mineralized soils were common in both the shallow and deep-water communities, while the intermediate depths had high percentages of organic material in the soil. These intermediate depths (occurring just above and just below low pool stage) were dominated by Pontederia...
Therefore, some or possibly all of the differences we measured before and after scraping could have been the result of low quality water (high nutrients and organic color) flushed into the lake following the heavy rains (93 cm in August and September of 2004) accompanying the storms. The ...
By the early 1960s four municipal wastewater treatment plants were discharging secondary effluent that contained high concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen. Rapid population growth and treatment plant expansion began in the 1960s, and by 1969 the lake had experienced deterioration of water quality, ...
While corresponding high water events undoubtedly delayed recovery in treated areas, the compositions of early colonizers were not changed. The same compositions found just prior to hurricane passage were found the following growing season, and the eventually-dominant communities did not appear until ...