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1-s2.0-S0925857409001220-mainEcologicalEngineering35(2009)1569–1573ContentslistsavailableatScienceDirectEcologicalEngineeringjournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/ecolengEditorialLakeeutrophication:ControlcountermeasuresandrecyclingexploitationarticleinfoKeywords:EutrophicationEcologicalengineeringMacrophyterestorationAlgalbloomcontrolRecyclingexploitationabstractEutrophicationisaworld-wideenvironmentalissue.LakeTaihuisatypicallarge,shallow,eutrophiclakelocatedindeltaofRiverChangjiang(YangtzeRiver).Alarge-scaleecologicalengineeringexperimenttargetedatwaterqualityimprovementwasimplementedinMeiliangBay,LakeTaihu.Inthisspecialissue,therearesixpapersrelatedtowaterpurificationandalgalbloomcontroltechniquesappliedinthisexperiment.Fourpapersaddressthevalidityandefficiencyofwaterqualityimprovementofthisecologicalengineeringandonepaperpresentsasimilarbutsmall-sizeecologicalengineering.Theothersfocusonmacrophyterestoration,aquaticplantmanagementandrecyclingexploitation.Theeditorialpaperhighlig