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 …

Missing phosphorus legacy of the Anthropocene: Quantifying residual phosphorus in the biosphere

AJ Margenot, S Zhou, S Xu, LM Condron… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A defining feature of the Anthropocene is the distortion of the biosphere phosphorus (P)
cycle. A relatively sudden acceleration of input fluxes without a concomitant increase in …

Widespread increases in soluble phosphorus concentrations in streams across the transboundary Great Lakes Basin

NK Singh, KJ Van Meter, NB Basu - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
Excess phosphorus from agricultural intensification has contributed to the eutrophication of
rivers and lakes worldwide, including the transboundary Laurentian Great Lakes Basin …

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 …

Optimization and multi-uncertainty analysis of best management practices at the watershed scale: A reliability-level based bayesian network approach

J Li, M Hu, W Ma, Y Liu, F Dong, R Zou… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Best management practices (BMPs) have been widely adopted to mitigate diffuse source
pollutants, and the simulated processes of its pollutant reduction effectiveness suffer from …

Limited progress in nutrient pollution in the US caused by spatially persistent nutrient sources

RJ Frei, GM Lawson, AJ Norris, G Cano, MC Vargas… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Human agriculture, wastewater, and use of fossil fuels have saturated ecosystems with
nitrogen and phosphorus, threatening biodiversity and human water security at a global …

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 …

Agricultural phosphorus surplus trajectories for Ontario, Canada (1961–2016), and erosional export risk

TL Van Staden, KJ Van Meter, NB Basu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Management strategies aimed at reducing nutrient enrichment of surface waters may be
hampered by nutrient legacies that have accumulated in the landscape. Here, we apply the …

Contrasting impacts of agricultural intensification and urbanization on lake phosphorus cycling and implications for managing eutrophication

S Slowinski, J Radosavljevic, A Graham… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sediment core and water quality data, together with historical information on land use/land
cover (LULC), were used to reconstruct changes in phosphorus (P) loading and cycling in …

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 …