User:DanielleNabor/Lake 226/AloofBidoof Peer Review

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Great work! Only a few wording, spacing, and reference things to look at but overall looks really good.

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Lake 226 is one of Canada's experimental lake areas (ELA) in Ontario. In 1968 this area in northwest Ontario was set aside for limnological research, aiming to study the watershed of the 58 small lakes in this area. These lakes were far from human activities and allowed the study of environmental conditions with human ''' interaction.  Lake 226 was specifically studied over a four year period, from1973''' -1977.


 * 1st paragraph looks good, just remove a space between "interaction" and the cited source and add a space between "from 1973."

These projects began as a response to the claim that carbon was the limiting agent causing eutrophication of lakes rather than phosphorus, and that monitoring phosphorus in the water would be a waste of money. This claim was made by soap and detergent companies, as these products do not biodegrade and can cause buildup of phosphates in water supplies that lead to eutrophication. The theory that carbon was the limiting agent was quickly debunked by the ELA lake 227 experiment, which found that carbon could be drawn from the atmosphere to remain proportional to the input of phosphorus in the water.  Experimental Lake 226 was then created test  phosphorus' impact on eutrophication by itself.


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This study lead to the discovery that phosphorus was an essential nutrient in the formation of these algal blooms, and thus began the legislative change for the ELA to control the impact of phosphorus in lake ''' ecosystems. ''' Unfortunately, this agreement did not lead to the controlling of phosphorus from non-point sources. The state of our lakes are currently being threatened by phosphorus as agricultural phosphorus is not being controlled well enough.


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There were reports of the survivability of fish between these basins that found that lake whitefish in the NE basin grew faster and produced more than in the SW basin of lake 226.  Annually there were no differenced  in the survivability of the fish, but at age 0 the fish survival rate was higher in the NE basin.


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 * Source 1 is from a wordpress.com which may not be as reliable, maybe find what sources they used and use that if it's not a .com
 * The rest of the sources look good
 * Could add link to other wikipedia pages that exist for relevant topics such as, "...in water supplies that lead to eutrophication."