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 …

A review of the hyporheic zone, stream restoration, and means to enhance denitrification

L Merill, DJ Tonjes - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The hyporheic zone is the subsurface area below and adjacent to a stream where
groundwater mixes with stream water, through vertical, lateral, and longitudinal flows. The …

Is the hyporheic zone relevant beyond the scientific community?

J Lewandowski, S Arnon, E Banks, O Batelaan… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Rivers are important ecosystems under continuous anthropogenic stresses. The hyporheic
zone is a ubiquitous, reactive interface between the main channel and its surrounding …

Biogeochemical hotspots: Role of small water bodies in landscape nutrient processing

FY Cheng, NB Basu - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increased loading of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from agricultural and urban
intensification has led to severe degradation of inland and coastal waters. Lakes, reservoirs …

Hyporheic zone hydrologic science: A historical account of its emergence and a prospectus

MB Cardenas - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The hyporheic zone, defined by shallow subsurface pathways through river beds and banks
beginning and ending at the river, is an integral and unique component of fluvial systems. It …

Measuring aerobic respiration in stream ecosystems using the resazurin‐resorufin system

R González‐Pinzón, R Haggerty… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The use of smart tracers to study hydrologic systems is becoming more widespread. Smart
tracers are compounds that irreversibly react in the presence of a process or condition under …

Scaling of dissolved organic carbon removal in river networks

E Bertuzzo, AM Helton, RO Hall Jr, TJ Battin - Advances in water resources, 2017 - Elsevier
Streams and rivers play a major role in the global carbon cycle as they collect, transform and
deliver terrestrial organic carbon to the ocean. The rate of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) …

Cascade damming impacts on microbial mediated nitrogen cycling in rivers

X Wang, P Wang, C Wang, J Chen, B Hu… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rivers display essential role in nitrogen (N) cycling in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, but
now they are suffering from damming worldwide, especially from cascade damming. Despite …

Checkered landscapes: hydrologic and biogeochemical nitrogen legacies along the river continuum

J Liu, KJ Van Meter, MM McLeod… - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Decades of agricultural intensification have led to elevated stream nitrogen (N)
concentrations and eutrophication of inland and coastal waters. Despite widespread …

Separation of river network–scale nitrogen removal among the main channel and two transient storage compartments

RJ Stewart, WM Wollheim, MN Gooseff… - Water Resources …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Transient storage (TS) zones are important areas of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN)
processing in rivers. We assessed sensitivities regarding the relative impact that the main …