Abteilung Limnologie
Mayenbrook 1
D – 28870 Ottersberg
University of Insubria (b)
Department of theoretical and applied sciences, Ecology unit
Via H. Dunant 3
I – 21100 Varese
a) Dr. Said Yasseri
b) Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Crosa
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Outdoor, pelagic/benthic, freshwater
floating platform including 3 floating PE-rings with mesocosms reaching into the sediment, 47 m³ per mesocosm, each 2 m diameter and 15 m depth (see Fig. 1)
1) Water: e.g. nutrients, species composition (algae & zooplankton), carbon, metals, ecotoxicology
Nutrients, quantification of sediment P-release,
effects of lanthanum modified clay on the P-release
Mobile mesocosm structure, can be installed on other study sites
Crosa G, Yasseri S, Novak K-E, Caziani A, Roella V, Zaccara S. 2013. Recovery of Lake Varese: reducing trophic status through internal P load capping, Fundamental and Applied Lmnology, Vol. 183/1, 49-61.
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Mesocosms in Lago di Varese (Photo by Institute Dr. Novak) |
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Sketch of the mesocosm construction (Dr. Yasseri) |
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Location of Lago di Varese: Latitude 45.818369; Longitude 8.738972 |
