Advancing Watershed Legacy Nitrogen Modeling to Improve Global Water Quality

Despite widespread implementation of watershed nitrogen reduction programs across the globe, nitrogen levels in many surface waters remain high. Watershed legacy nitrogen storage, i.e., the long-term retention of nitrogen in soils and groundwater, is one of several explanations for this lack of prog...

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Published in:Environmental science & technology 2023-02, Vol.57 (7), p.2691-2697
Main Authors: Golden, Heather E., Evenson, Grey R., Christensen, Jay R., Lane, Charles R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Conservation practices
Environmental Monitoring
Groundwater
Land conservation
Land management
Modelling
Nitrogen
Nitrogen - analysis
Soil
Surface water
Sustainability management
Water management
Water Quality
Watersheds
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Summary:Despite widespread implementation of watershed nitrogen reduction programs across the globe, nitrogen levels in many surface waters remain high. Watershed legacy nitrogen storage, i.e., the long-term retention of nitrogen in soils and groundwater, is one of several explanations for this lack of progress. However scientists and water managers are ill-equipped to estimate how legacy nitrogen moderates in-stream nitrogen responses to land conservation practices, largely because modeling tools and associated long-term monitoring approaches to answering these questions remain inadequate. We demonstrate the need for improved watershed models to simulate legacy nitrogen processes and offer modeling solutions to support long-term nitrogen-based sustainable land management across the globe.
ISSN:0013-936X
1520-5851
DOI:10.1021/acs.est.2c06983