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Preliminary approach to modelling eutrophication – anthropopressure impact on sea water quality
Summary
This chapter reviews methods for modeling eutrophication — the process by which excess nutrients cause algal blooms and oxygen depletion in water — with a focus on the Baltic Sea. Eutrophication interacts with microplastic pollution because nutrient-rich conditions promote the biofilm communities that colonize plastic particles.
The chapter is devoted to the problem of eutrophication.Methods and parameters for its assessment are described.Furthermore, the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea is discussed in detailed.Finally, the semi-Markov model of the eutrophication process is proposed, and its characteristics are determined.
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