Advances in catchment science, hydrochemistry, and aquatic ecology enabled by high-frequency water quality measurements

M Bieroza, S Acharya, J Benisch… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
High-frequency water quality measurements in streams and rivers have expanded in scope
and sophistication during the last two decades. Existing technology allows in situ automated …

Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review

SL Speir, LA Rose, JR Blaszczak… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Processes that drive variability in catchment solute sourcing, transformation, and transport
can be investigated using concentration–discharge (C–Q) relationships. These relationships …

Transport pathways of nitrate in stormwater runoff inferred from high-frequency sampling and stable water isotopes

J Wang, X Li, Y Li, Y Shi, H **ao, L Wang… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Storm events can mobilize nitrogen species from landscapes into streams, exacerbating
eutrophication and threatening aquatic ecosystems as well as human health. However, the …

Revisiting the origins of the power‐law analysis for the assessment of concentration‐discharge relationships

AS Wymore, W Larsen, DW Kincaid… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Concentration‐discharge (C‐Q) relationships are frequently used to understand the
controls on material export from watersheds. These analyses often use a log‐log power‐law …

Influence of precipitation event magnitude on baseflow and coastal nitrate export for Prince Edward Island, Canada

I Pavlovskii, Y Jiang, S Danielescu… - Hydrological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The export of anthropogenic nitrate to coastal waters, which depends on the interplay
between many factors such as land use and meteorological forcing, is a rising concern in …

Cover crops control nitrogen and phosphorus transport from two agricultural watersheds at multiple measurement scales

SL Speir, JL Tank, MT Trentman, UH Mahl… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental impacts on freshwater ecosystems persist due to inputs of excess fertilizer to
agricultural landscapes. Conservation efforts, such as cover crops, are being encouraged to …

Linking Dynamic Water Storage and Subsurface Geochemical Structure Using High‐Frequency Concentration‐Discharge Records

P Floury, J Bouchez, JL Druhan… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in water fluxes and chemical heterogeneity through catchments combine to dictate
stream solute export from the Critical Zone. The ways in which these factors emerge in …

Effects of climate and winter cover crops on nutrient loss in agricultural watersheds in the midwestern US

AF Hamlet, N Ehsani, JL Tank, Z Silver, K Byun… - Climatic Change, 2024 - Springer
Nutrient runoff from agricultural regions of the midwestern US corn belt has degraded water
quality in many inland and coastal water bodies such as the Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico …

Quantifying the impact of a constructed wetland on downstream nitrate concentrations and loads in the US Midwest

E Anderson, KE Schilling, CL Just… - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Constructed wetlands are standard conservation practices used to reduce nitrate loads in
agricultural watersheds. Many studies have examined the efficiency of denitrification in …

Uncertainty in streamflow measurements significantly impacts estimates of downstream nitrate export

SL Speir, CN Jones, AJ Shogren… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Across watershed science, two key variables emerge–streamflow and solute concentration–
which serve as the basis for efforts ranging from basic watershed biogeochemistry research …