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

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 35014 - 35025
• Main Authors: Van Meter, K J, Basu, N B, Veenstra, J J, Burras, C L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.03.2016
• Subjects: Accumulation; Agricultural land; Anthropogenic factors; Balance studies; Denitrification; Depletion; Fertilizer application; Fluxes; Intensive farming; Lag time; Landscape; Mass balance; Nitrogen; nutrients; Oceans; retention; River basins; soil; Soil analysis; Soils; time lags; water quality; Watersheds; USA, Mississippi R. basin

Watershed and global-scale nitrogen (N) budgets indicate that the majority of the N surplus in anthropogenic landscapes does not reach the coastal oceans. While there is general consensus that this 'missing' N either exits the landscape via denitrification or is retained within watersheds...