Modelling mitigation options to reduce diffuse nitrogen water pollution from agriculture

F Bouraoui, B Grizzetti - Science of the Total Environment, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Agriculture is responsible for large scale water quality degradation and is estimated to
contribute around 55% of the nitrogen entering the European Seas. The key policy …

Effects of agricultural land management changes on surface water quality: A review of meso-scale catchment research

AR Melland, O Fenton, P Jordan - Environmental science & policy, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Measuring the environmental impacts of agricultural practice is critical for policy formulation
and review, including policies implemented to improve water quality. Here, studies that …

Global patterns of nitrate storage in the vadose zone

MJ Ascott, DC Gooddy, L Wang, ME Stuart… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Global-scale nitrogen budgets developed to quantify anthropogenic impacts on the nitrogen
cycle do not explicitly consider nitrate stored in the vadose zone. Here we show that the …

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 …

Tracing the Sources and Fate of NO3 in the Vadose Zone–Groundwater System of a Thousand-Year-Cultivated Region

X Niu, X Jia, X Yang, J Wang, X Wei… - … Science & Technology, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Excess nitrate (NO3–) loading in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems can result in critical
environmental and health issues. NO3–-rich groundwater has been recorded in the …

Management, regulation and environmental impacts of nitrogen fertilization in northwestern Europe under the Nitrates Directive; a benchmark study

HJM Van Grinsven, HFM Ten Berge, T Dalgaard… - …, 2012‏ - bg.copernicus.org
Implementation of the Nitrates Directive (NiD) and its environmental impacts were compared
for member states in the northwest of the European Union (Ireland, United Kingdom …

Time lags in watershed-scale nutrient transport: an exploration of dominant controls

KJ Van Meter, NB Basu - Environmental Research Letters, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Unprecedented decreases in atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition together with increases in
agricultural N-use efficiency have led to decreases in net anthropogenic N inputs in many …

Nitrate removal rate, efficiency and pollution swap** potential of different organic carbon media in laboratory denitrification bioreactors

MG Healy, TG Ibrahim, GJ Lanigan, AJ Serrenho… - Ecological …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Laboratory denitrifying bioreactors, which use an organic carbon (C) rich media to enhance
microbial reduction of nitrate (NO3−) to nitrogen (N) gases, are used worldwide to protect …

Toward operational methods for the assessment of intrinsic groundwater vulnerability: A review

P Wachniew, AJ Zurek, C Stumpp… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016‏ - Taylor & Francis
Assessing the vulnerability of groundwater to adverse effects of human impacts is one of the
most important problems in applied hydrogeology. At the same time, many of the …

Quantifying nutrient transfer pathways in agricultural catchments using high temporal resolution data

PE Mellander, AR Melland, P Jordan, DP Wall… - … Science & Policy, 2012‏ - Elsevier
There are uncertainties in the definition of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) transfer
pathways within agricultural river catchments due to spatiotemporal variations such as water …