FACTORS CONTROLLING PRIMARY

PRODUCTION IN
LAKES AND RESERVOIRS: A
PERSPECTIVE
Group 3:
• Coello Sandro
• Márquez Ariana
• Peralta Jean
• Pozo Angie
 Lakes and reservoirs 
1
P
Differences
R
I Phytoplankton
● Basin morphology
M
● Hydrodynamics  A 2
R
Periphyton
● Hydraulic retention time Y

● Extent of water level fluctuations P

R Macrophytes 3
● Surface versus subsurface outflow O
D
U
C
T Photosynthetic
I
O Chemosynthetic
N bacteria
 Factors that influence primary production
Nutrients, light availability,
temperature are a factor that
control for the growth of
primary production.

Abundance
of phytoplankton
is related to the​
concentration of
nutrients Stratification

Nitrogen is the nutrient that

controls primary production during
the stratification period, although
in early spring and after autumn
phosphorus the determining
nutrient.
 Factors that influence primary production
Reservoirs and Lakes differ in
productivity due to gradients.

-Reservoirs have both vertical and

horizontal gradients of  environmental
factors that limit primary production.

Less productive More productive Lakes have vertical gradients

Factors that influence primary production

• Less water flow • High water flow

• • Less susp. solids
More susp. solids
• Broad and deep • Narrow and channelized
 Factors that influence primary production
• Oligotrophic lakes are more
• Temperature flow between layers
common than Oligotrophic
depends on wind currents and
reservoirs, due to different
season.
sediment and nutrient loads.

More productive,
higher
temperatures.

Less productive,
lower temperatures
.
 Anthropogenic factors

On Reservoirs & Lakes Effects

Restrict the establishment

• Silts, clays, trash, Abiogenic and development of algal and
chemicals turbidity rooted macrophyte
• Flood control communities
• Hydropower Large water
operation level
fluctuations

Phytoplankton production
(Primary productivity)
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