Water quality and ecosystem management: Data‐driven reality check of effects in streams and lakes

Destouni, Georgia; Fischer, Ida; Prieto, Carmen

doi:10.1002/2016wr019954

Water quality and ecosystem management: Data‐driven reality check of effects in streams and lakes

This study investigates nutrient‐related water quality conditions and change trends in the first management periods of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD; since 2009) and Baltic Sea Action Plan (BASP; since 2007). With mitigation of nutrients in inland waters and their discharges to the Baltic…