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A Bayesian network model for estimating stoichiometric ratios of lake seston components.

ABSTRACT: The elemental composition of seston provide insights into the functioning of lake food webs and how nutrients cycle through the environment. Here, we describe a Bayesian network model that simultaneously estimates relationships between dissolved and particulate nutrients, suspended volatile and non-volatile sediments, and algal chlorophyll. The model provides direct estimates of the phosphorus and nitrogen content of phytoplankton, suspended non-living organic matter, and suspended inorganic sediment. We apply this model to data collected from reservoirs in Missouri, USA to test the validity of our assumed relationships. The results indicate that, on average among all samples, the ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus (N:P) in phytoplankton and non-living organic matter in these reservoirs were similar, although under nutrient replete conditions, N:P in phytoplankton decreased. Phosphorus content of inorganic sediment was lower than in phytoplankton and non-living organic matter. The analysis also provided a means of tracking changes in the composition of whole seston over time. In addition to informing questions regarding seston stoichiometry, this modeling approach may inform efforts to manage lake eutrophication because it can improve traditional models of relationships between nutrients and chlorophyll in lakes.

SUBMITTER: Yuan LL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7147758 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Bayesian network model for estimating stoichiometric ratios of lake seston components.

Yuan Lester L LL Jones John R JR

Inland waters : journal of the International Society of Limnology 20190401 1

The elemental composition of seston provide insights into the functioning of lake food webs and how nutrients cycle through the environment. Here, we describe a Bayesian network model that simultaneously estimates relationships between dissolved and particulate nutrients, suspended volatile and non-volatile sediments, and algal chlorophyll. The model provides direct estimates of the phosphorus and nitrogen content of phytoplankton, suspended non-living organic matter, and suspended inorganic sed ...[more]

PMID: 32280450

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A Bayesian network model for estimating stoichiometric ratios of lake seston components.

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A Bayesian network model for estimating stoichiometric ratios of lake seston components.

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