Abstract The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is now well established as the key
management imperative in river basins across Europe. However, there remain significant …

Abstract The “phosphorus index”(PI) is a semiquantitative tool to assess the risk of P loss
from fields to surface waters, which is based on simple arithmetic computations of source …

Human activities are responsible for consistent N r export to the environment (Vitousek et al.,
1997; Schlesinger, 2009; Erisman et al., 2011, Chapter 2 this volume). The enrichment of …

Decades of intensive agricultural production with excessive application of P fertilizer have
resulted in the accumulation of P in soils, threatening water bodies in most industrialized …

Abstract Study region Mediterranean River Basins. Study focus Human activities and
consequent pollution have put the freshwater and marine ecosystems of the Mediterranean …

Farmers often install subsurface drainage systems to improve yields on wet soils, which has
large impacts on the hydrological system. The present study uses an ensemble of machine …

Improving nitrogen (N) status in European water bodies is a pressing issue. N levels depend
not only on current but also past N inputs to the landscape, that have accumulated through …

The European environmental legislation on water, in particular the 2000 Water Framework
Directive, requires the evaluation of nutrient pressures and the assessment of mitigation …

Long‐term nitrogen (N) transport and retention dynamics across catchments are not well
understood. Using a process‐based model for 89 German catchments, results across study …

In EUROHARP, an EC Framework V project, which started in 2002 with 21 partners in 17
countries across Europe, a detailed intercomparison of contemporary catchment-scale …