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 …

Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry

IR Santos, X Chen, AL Lecher, AH Sawyer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) links terrestrial and marine systems, but has often
been overlooked in coastal nutrient budgets because it is difficult to quantify. In this Review …

River dam impacts on biogeochemical cycling

T Maavara, Q Chen, K Van Meter, LE Brown… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
The increased use of hydropower is currently driving the greatest surge in global dam
construction since the mid-20th century, meaning that most major rivers on Earth are now …

Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

G Blöschl, MFP Bierkens, A Chambel… - Hydrological sciences …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific
problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts …

Maximizing US nitrate removal through wetland protection and restoration

FY Cheng, KJ Van Meter, DK Byrnes, NB Basu - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Growing populations and agricultural intensification have led to raised riverine nitrogen (N)
loads, widespread oxygen depletion in coastal zones (coastal hypoxia) and increases in the …

Gulf of Mexico hypoxia: Past, present, and future

NN Rabalais, RE Turner - Limnology and Oceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
One of the largest human‐caused areas of bottom‐water oxygen deficiency in the coastal
ocean is on the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf adjacent to the Mississippi River …

Contributions of external nutrient loading and internal cycling to cyanobacterial bloom dynamics in Lake Taihu, China: Implications for nutrient management

H Xu, MJ McCarthy, HW Paerl… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) are linked to increasing anthropogenic
nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) inputs. However, CyanoHABs in many large lakes continue …

Landscape drivers of dynamic change in water quality of US rivers

EG Stets, LA Sprague, GP Oelsner… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Water security is a top concern for social well-being, and dramatic changes in the availability
of freshwater have occurred as a result of human uses and landscape management …

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 …

Barriers and bridges in abating coastal eutrophication

DF Boesch - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Over the past 30 years concerted campaigns have been undertaken to reverse nutrient-
driven eutrophication in coastal waters in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia …