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 …

Fertilizers and nitrate pollution of surface and ground water: an increasingly pervasive global problem

E Craswell - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Nitrate pollution of ground and surface water bodies all over the world is generally linked
with continually increasing global fertilizer nitrogen (N) use. But after 1990, with more …

A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

H Tian, R Xu, JG Canadell, RL Thompson… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), like carbon dioxide, is a long-lived greenhouse gas that
accumulates in the atmosphere. Over the past 150 years, increasing atmospheric N 2 O …

Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico

KJ Van Meter, P Van Cappellen, NB Basu - Science, 2018 - science.org
In August 2017, the Gulf of Mexico's hypoxic zone was declared to be the largest ever
measured. It has been estimated that a 60% decrease in watershed nitrogen (N) loading …

Global patterns of nitrate storage in the vadose zone

MJ Ascott, DC Gooddy, L Wang, ME Stuart… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Global-scale nitrogen budgets developed to quantify anthropogenic impacts on the nitrogen
cycle do not explicitly consider nitrate stored in the vadose zone. Here we show that the …

Recent advancement in water quality indicators for eutrophication in global freshwater lakes

K Suresh, T Tang, MTH Van Vliet… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Eutrophication is a major global concern in lakes, caused by excessive nutrient loadings
(nitrogen and phosphorus) from human activities and likely exacerbated by climate change …

Mitigating eutrophication and toxic cyanobacterial blooms in large lakes: The evolution of a dual nutrient (N and P) reduction paradigm

HW Paerl, KE Havens, H Xu, G Zhu, MJ McCarthy… - Hydrobiologia, 2020 - Springer
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs) are an increasingly common feature of
large, eutrophic lakes. Non-N 2-fixing CyanoHABs (eg, Microcystis) appear to be …

Rethinking sources of nitrogen to cereal crops

M Yan, G Pan, JM Lavallee… - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how to manage N inputs to identify the practices that maximize N recovery
has been an organizing principle of agronomic research. Because growth in N fertilizer …

Agricultural managed aquifer recharge (Ag-MAR)—a method for sustainable groundwater management: A review

E Levintal, ML Kniffin, Y Ganot, N Marwaha… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
More than two billion people and 40% of global agricultural production depend upon
unsustainable groundwater extraction. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR), the practice of …