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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2012, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (11): 3197-3206.

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Lake eutrophication modeling in considering climatic factors change: A review.

SU Jie-qiong1,2, WANG Xuan1,2, YANG Zhi-feng1,2   

  1. (1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Water and Sediment Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; 2State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, Beijing 100875, China)
  • Online:2012-11-18 Published:2012-11-18

Abstract: Climatic factors are considered as the key factors affecting the trophic status and its process in most lakes. Under the background of global climate change, to incorporate the variations of climatic factors into lake eutrophication models could provide solid technical support for the analysis of the trophic evolution trend of lake and the decision-making of lake environment management. This paper analyzed the effects of climatic factors such as air temperature, precipitation, sunlight, and atmosphere on lake eutrophication, and summarized the research results about the lake eutrophication modeling in considering climatic factors change, including the modeling based on statistical analysis, ecological dynamic analysis, system analysis, and intelligent algorithm. The prospective approaches to improve the accuracy of lake eutrophication modeling with the consideration of climatic factors change were put forward, including 1) to strengthen the analysis of the mechanisms related to the effects of climatic factors change on lake trophic status, 2) to identify the appropriate simulation models to generate several scenarios under proper temporal and spatial scales and resolutions, and 3) to integrate the climatic factors change simulation, hydrodynamic model, ecological simulation, and intelligent algorithm into a general modeling system to achieve an accurate prediction of lake eutrophication under climatic  change.