The cycle of nitrogen in river systems: sources, transformation, and flux

X Xia, S Zhang, S Li, L Zhang, G Wang… - … science: Processes & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrogen is a requisite and highly demanded element for living organisms on Earth.
However, increasing human activities have greatly altered the global nitrogen cycle …

Research on the biology and ecology of the harmful algal bloom species Phaeocystis globosa in China: Progresses in the last 20 years

X Wang, H Song, Y Wang, N Chen - Harmful Algae, 2021 - Elsevier
Chinese researchers have made substantial progresses in research on the harmful algal
bloom (HAB) species Phaeocystis globosa since the first P. globosa bloom outbreak in the …

Water quality management could halve future water scarcity cost-effectively in the Pearl River Basin

S Baccour, G Goelema, T Kahil, J Albiac… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Reducing water scarcity requires both mitigation of the increasing water pollution and
adaptation to the changing availability and demand of water resources under global change …

Alarming nutrient pollution of Chinese rivers as a result of agricultural transitions

M Strokal, L Ma, Z Bai, S Luan, C Kroeze… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Transitions in Chinese agriculture resulted in industrial animal production systems,
disconnected from crop production. We analyzed side-effects of these transitions on total …

Tracking nitrogen sources, transformation, and transport at a basin scale with complex plain river networks

Q Yi, Q Chen, L Hu, W Shi - Environmental science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
This research developed an innovative approach to reveal nitrogen sources, transformation,
and transport in large and complex river networks in the Taihu Lake basin using …

[HTML][HTML] The MARINA model (Model to Assess River Inputs of Nutrients to seAs): Model description and results for China

M Strokal, C Kroeze, M Wang, Z Bai, L Ma - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Chinese agriculture has been developing fast towards industrial food production systems
that discharge nutrient-rich wastewater into rivers. As a result, nutrient export by rivers has …

Groundwater is important for the geochemical cycling of phosphorus in rapidly urbanized areas: a case study in the Pearl River Delta

G Huang, C Liu, Y Zhang, Z Chen - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
The fate of phosphorus in groundwater needs to be understood because phosphorus-rich
groundwater is discharged into surface water bodies, which causes eutrophication …

The characteristics of nitrogen and phosphorus output in China's highly urbanized Pearl River Delta region

Y Mao, H Zhang, Y Cheng, J Zhao, Z Huang - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) transportation due to the anthropogenic activities have
strong correlations to the water pollution events. In the highly urbanized Pearl River Delta …

Spectroscopic and molecular-level characteristics of dissolved organic matter in the Pearl River Estuary, South China

Y Liu, Q Ye, WL Huang, L Feng, YH Wang, Z Xie… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coastal populations are expanding globally, resulting in great anthropogenic impacts on the
organic matter in estuaries and regional carbon cycles. However, the molecular-level …

Global modelling of surface water quality: a multi-pollutant approach

C Kroeze, S Gabbert, N Hofstra, AA Koelmans… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Water pollution poses a threat to aquatic ecosystems and society.•Global river
pollution models typically focus on one pollutant.•Pollutants can have common sources and …