Extensive wetland drainage has occurred across the Canadian Prairies, and drainage
activities are ongoing in many areas (Dahl 1990; Watmough and Schmoll 2007; Bartzen et …

Vegetation water content (VWC) is an important land surface parameter that is used in
retrieving surface soil moisture from microwave satellite platforms. Operational approaches …

A fully integrated, physically-based model of a drained and farmed wetland complex in the
Prairie Pothole Region of Iowa (termed Ellsworth# 2) was developed to investigate …

Recent flooding of agricultural land in the northern Prairie Pothole Region–coupled with
intensification of agriculture–has resulted in renewed efforts to drain Prairie Potholes …

Highlights Nitrogen, total phosphorus, and total suspended solids concentrations were
higher in early season inundation. Nitrate concentrations in farmed potholes decreased with …

The enhancement of agricultural lands through the use of artificial drainage systems is a
common practice throughout the United States, and recently the use of this practice has …

The vast majority of prairie-pothole wetlands in a region that extends from northcentral
Alberta in Canada to central Iowa in the United States have been drained to facilitate …

Fertility and crop production in soils of the recently-glaciated agricultural Midwestern US link
to soil inorganic and organic carbon, soil nitrogen and nitrogen inputs. Research relating …

Core Ideas Nutrient fate and form was investigated in drained soils under various moisture
scenarios. Drained soils had greater aboveground biomass and N and P uptake than …

Enclosed topographical depressions that retain water intermittently are abundant across the
prairie pothole region of the United States. These depressional wetlands (potholes) are …