Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement

NB Basu, KJ Van Meter, DK Byrnes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing incidences of eutrophication and groundwater quality impairment from
agricultural nitrogen pollution are threatening humans and ecosystem health. Minimal …

Advancing watershed legacy nitrogen modeling to improve global water quality

HE Golden, GR Evenson, JR Christensen… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite widespread implementation of watershed nitrogen reduction programs across the
globe, nitrogen levels in many surface waters remain high. Watershed legacy nitrogen …

Unveiling the biogeochemical mechanism of nitrate in the vadose zone-groundwater system: Insights from integrated microbiology, isotope techniques, and …

D Wang, P Li, D Mu, W Liu, Y Chen, M Fida - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Clarifying the biogeochemical mechanism of nitrate (NO 3−) in the vadose zone-
groundwater system, particularly in agricultural contexts, is crucial for mitigating groundwater …

Deep soil nitrogen storage slows nitrate leaching through the vadose zone

JN Weitzman, JR Brooks, JE Compton… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer applications are important for agricultural yield, yet not all the applied
N is taken up by crops, leading to surplus N storage in soil or leaching to groundwater and …

Long-term annual soil nitrogen surplus across Europe (1850–2019)

M Batool, FJ Sarrazin, S Attinger, NB Basu… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Worldwide surface waters suffer from the presence of nitrogen (N) compounds causing
eutrophication and deterioration of the water quality. Despite many Europe-wide …

Sources and transformations of nitrogen in an agricultural watershed on the Jianghan Plain, China: an integration of δ15N–NH4+, δ15N–NO3-, δ18O–NO3-and a …

M Cao, X Yin, J Zhang, M Jin, X Huang - Applied Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the complexity of nitrate sources and transformation processes under extensive
human activities and climate change, there are a great number of uncertainties associated …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to water sustainability? A global study assessing the benefits of integrated water resources management

S Bilalova, J Newig, LC Tremblay-Lévesque… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been central to water governance and
management worldwide since the 1990s. Recognizing the significance of an integrated …

Limited progress in nutrient pollution in the US caused by spatially persistent nutrient sources

RJ Frei, GM Lawson, AJ Norris, G Cano, MC Vargas… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Human agriculture, wastewater, and use of fossil fuels have saturated ecosystems with
nitrogen and phosphorus, threatening biodiversity and human water security at a global …

Long-term high nitrogen surplus in intensive apple-planting regions results in huge legacy nitrogen in the vadose zone: Potential or real risk to the groundwater?

P Miao, X Zhu, S Zhang, W Li, J Zhou, Z Chen - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the fates of nitrogen (N) fertilizers applied to soil at the different scales is
crucial to increase N use efficiency and reduce N loss to the environment. However, most of …

A random forest in the Great Lakes: Stream nutrient concentrations across the transboundary Great Lakes Basin

NB Basu, J Dony, KJ Van Meter, SJ Johnston… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Excess nutrient inputs from agricultural and urban sources have accelerated eutrophication
and increased the incidence of algal blooms in the Great Lakes Basin (GLB). Lake basin …