摘要
Establishing nutrient reference condition of lakes in ecoregion is a critical part during nutrient criteria development.Reference lake approach,lake population distribution approach,trisection approach,regression approach,model extrapolation and paleolimnological reconstruction are analyzed in this paper.Several approaches are applied to establish reference condition ranges of Chaohu Lake for the main variables (i.e.TN,TP,chlorophyll a and Secci depth) by using monitoring data and 5th percentile of lake population distribution is recommended as reference conditions.Thus,threshold rang of Chaohu Lake for TP is 0.023~0.27mg/L,TN is 0.62~0.63mg/L,chlorophyll a is 0.65~0.67mg/m3,and SD is 0.65~0.72m.