Scaling Patterns of Point and Diffuse Source Nutrient Loads and Response of Benthic and Pelagic Algal Communities in a Fractal River Network Perspective

Soohyun Yang1, Enrico Bertuzzo2, Olaf Buettner3, Dietrich Borchardt3 and P Suresh Rao4, (1)Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Venice, Italy, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Magdeburg/Leipzig, Germany, (4)Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil Engineering and Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States