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 …

Transit times—The link between hydrology and water quality at the catchment scale

M Hrachowitz, P Benettin… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of trying to understand processes in the same spatial domain, the catchment
hydrology and water quality scientific communities are relatively disconnected and so are …

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 …

Elemental properties, hydrology, and biology interact to shape concentration‐discharge curves for carbon, nutrients, sediment, and major ions

F Moatar, BW Abbott, C Minaudo… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the prevalence and cause of concentration‐discharge (C‐Q) relationships for
carbon, nutrients, major ions, and particulates, we analyzed 40 years of water quality data …

Concentration–discharge relationships vary among hydrological events, reflecting differences in event characteristics

JLA Knapp, J von Freyberg, B Studer… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Studying the response of streamwater chemistry to changes in discharge can provide
valuable insights into how catchments store and release water and solutes. Previous studies …

The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

KJ Van Meter, NB Basu, JJ Veenstra… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Watershed and global-scale nitrogen (N) budgets indicate that the majority of 1 the N
surplus in anthropogenic landscapes does not reach the coastal oceans. While there 2 is …

Catchment controls on solute export

A Musolff, C Schmidt, B Selle… - Advances in water …, 2015 - Elsevier
Dynamics of solute export from catchments can be classified in terms of chemostatic and
chemodynamic export regimes by an analysis of concentration–discharge relationships …

Two centuries of nitrogen dynamics: Legacy sources and sinks in the Mississippi and Susquehanna River Basins

KJ Van Meter, NB Basu… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Global flows of reactive nitrogen (N) have increased significantly over the last century in
response to agricultural intensification and elevated levels of atmospheric deposition …

Hydrological partitioning in the critical zone: Recent advances and opportunities for develo** transferable understanding of water cycle dynamics

PD Brooks, J Chorover, Y Fan… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrology is an integrative discipline linking the broad array of water‐related research with
physical, ecological, and social sciences. The increasing breadth of hydrological research …

Concentration–discharge relationships describe solute and sediment mobilization, reaction, and transport at event and longer timescales

LA Rose, DL Karwan, SE Godsey - Hydrological processes, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Concentration–discharge (C‐Q) relationships reflect material sources, storage,
reaction, proximity, and transport in catchments. Differences in hydrologic pathways and …