Ecosystem structure and functioning of Lake Taihu (China) and the impacts of fishing

Towards the development of an ecosystem model for the Hamilton Harbour, Ontario, Canada

“…Given that immature systems are usually assumed to demonstrate lower stability, the latter finding seems somewhat counterintuitive and differs from what was reported by Aoki (1995) and Fayram et al (2006). However, our study is not the first to report a relatively high system overhead ratio that negates the general evidence of an immature and relatively simple system (e.g., see Yunkai-Li et al, 2009;Hossain et al, 2010). In congruence with our results, Perez-Espana and Arreguin-Sanchez (2001) study asserted that ecosystem maturity and stability are related but in inverse way of what has been historically perceived, i.e., immature systems are more stable and ecosystems become more fragile as they mature.…”

“…The latter result is not surprising, given that the system has been regularly subjected to anthropogenic disturbances and thus highly organized flow is unlikely to develop. Further, if we compare the values typically reported in the literature (Fayram et al, 2006;Hossain et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2007;Villanueva et al, 2008;Yunkai-Li et al, 2009), we infer that the amount of recycled throughput excluding detritus (8.26 t km −2 year −1 ), the Finn's cycling index (1.58%), and the values of Finn's mean (2.35) and straight-through path length without detritus (2.21) are also on par with our earlier findings that the Hamilton Harbour is probably an immature and fairly simple system (Table 8).…”

Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in fish species from the Meiliang Bay, Taihu Lake, China

“…Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake China, is located in the Yangtze delta plain on the border of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces of eastern China. It plays an important role in flood control, water supply, and fisheries [ 38 ]. Rapid industrial and economic development has occurred around the lake since the 1980s.…”

Research on cyanobacteria blooms monitoring ability of HJ-1 CCD

“…The study area, Taihu Lake (30°5'-32°8'N and 119°8'-121°55'E), located in the southern Jiangsu province and northern Zhejiang province, is the third largest freshwater lake in East China with a surface area of 2338 km2 and average depth of 1.9m [12]. It is influenced by a semi-tropical monsoon climate with high winds during winter and more precipitation during summer.…”