Global solutions to regional problems: Collecting global expertise to address the problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. A Lake Erie case study

GS Bullerjahn, RM McKay, TW Davis, DB Baker… - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
In early August 2014, the municipality of Toledo, OH (USA) issued a 'do not drink'advisory on
their water supply directly affecting over 400,000 residential customers and hundreds of …

The economics of nutrient pollution from agriculture

G Del Rossi, MM Hoque, Y Ji… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Nutrient pollution from agricultural sources, coming primarily from fertilization of row crops
and manure from livestock operations, affects ecological health in the United States through …

[HTML][HTML] Unsupervised learning approach in defining the similarity of catchments: Hydrological response unit based k-means clustering, a demonstration on Western …

E Aytaç - International soil and water conservation research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigated the similarity of the catchments with the k-means clustering method
by using the hydrological response unit (HRU) images of 33 catchments located in the …

Nudging farmers to reduce water pollution from nitrogen fertilizer

Y Chai, DJ Pannell, PG Pardey - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen sourced from agricultural fertilizers is a major contributor to water pollution. Despite
policies targeting a range of farming practice changes, the goal of substantially reducing …

Catchment legacies and time lags: A parsimonious watershed model to predict the effects of legacy storage on nitrogen export

KJ Van Meter, NB Basu - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Nutrient legacies in anthropogenic landscapes, accumulated over decades of fertilizer
application, lead to time lags between implementation of conservation measures and …

Cost-effective targeting of conservation investments to reduce the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone

SS Rabotyagov, TD Campbell… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
A seasonally occurring summer hypoxic (low oxygen) zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico is
the second largest in the world. Reductions in nutrients from agricultural cropland in its …

Potential nutrient removal function of naturally existed ditches and ponds in paddy regions: Prospect of enhancing water quality by irrigation and drainage …

S Li, H Liu, L Zhang, X Li, H Wang, Y Zhuang… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventionally, paddy fields are regarded as important non-point sources of nutrient
pollution, while ecological ditches and ponds are developed to reduce or retain nutrient …

Ensemble modeling informs hypoxia management in the northern Gulf of Mexico

D Scavia, I Bertani, DR Obenour… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A large region of low-dissolved-oxygen bottom waters (hypoxia) forms nearly every summer
in the northern Gulf of Mexico because of nutrient inputs from the Mississippi River Basin …

Evaluating impacts of agricultural cost sharing on water quality: additionality, crowding in, and slippage

P Fleming, E Lichtenberg, DA Newburn - Journal of Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
We evaluate three farmer behavioral responses to incentive payments for ecosystem
services, specifically a cover crop cost-share program aimed at reducing nitrogen loads in …

Simulation of targeted pollutant-mitigation-strategies to reduce nitrate and sediment hotspots in agricultural watershed

AD Teshager, PW Gassman, S Secchi… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
About 50% of US water pollution problems are caused by non-point source (NPS) pollution,
primarily sediment and nutrients from agricultural areas, despite the widespread …