Urban watershed eutrophication state monitoring using aquatic plant based technology

• Main Authors: Othman, Rashidi, Hanifah, Nurul Azlen, Wan Muhamad, Wan Naimatul Asiah
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences; SB Plant culture; TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD172 Environmental pollution
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/37961/3/CONFERENCE_PROCEEDINGS_BOOK.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37961/; http://www.globalilluminators.org/gtar2014-bali-indonesia/
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Eutrophication is always associated with excess nutrients of nitrogen and phosphorus. Excess nutrients can trigger undesirable eutrophication, resulting in unhealthy algal blooms, spreading of certain aquatic macrophytes, depletion of oxygen and loss of key species, resulting in widespread degradati...