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 …

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 …

Characterizing legacy nitrogen-induced time lags in riverine nitrogen reduction for the Songhuajiang River Basin: Source analysis, spatio-seasonal patterns, and …

Y Gao, Y Tian, W Zhan, L Li, H Sun, T Zhao, H Zhang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Legacy nitrogen (N) originating from net N inputs (NNI) may pose ongoing threats to riverine
water quality worldwide and even cause serious time-lags between water quality restoration …

Long‐term Mississippi River trends expose shifts in the river load response to watershed nutrient balances between 1975 and 2017

S Stackpoole, R Sabo, J Falcone… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Excess nutrients transported by the Mississippi River (MR) contribute to hypoxia in the Gulf
of Mexico. Nutrient balances are key drivers to river nutrient loads and represent inputs …

Regional patterns and drivers of total nitrogen trends in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: Insights from machine learning approaches and management implications

Q Zhang, JT Bostic, RD Sabo - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs have led to nutrient enrichment in many waterbodies
worldwide, including Chesapeake Bay (USA). River water quality integrates the spatial and …

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 …

Major point and nonpoint sources of nutrient pollution to surface water have declined throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed

RD Sabo, B Sullivan, C Wu, E Trentacoste… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding drivers of water quality in local watersheds is the first step for implementing
targeted restoration practices. Nutrient inventories can inform water quality management …

Progress in reducing nutrient and sediment loads to Chesapeake Bay: Three decades of monitoring data and implications for restoring complex ecosystems

Q Zhang, JD Blomquist, RM Fanelli… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For over three decades, Chesapeake Bay (USA) has been the focal point of a coordinated
restoration strategy implemented through a partnership of governmental and …

Is irrigation water an overlooked source of nitrogen in agriculture?

J Serra, P Paredes, CMS Cordovil, S Cruz… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The increase of agricultural nitrogen (N) inputs since the 1960s is a key driver in surface-and
groundwater nitrate pollution. The water abstracted from these sources can input substantial …