What impact might mitigation of diffuse nitrate pollution have on river water quality in a rural catchment?

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 109, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-26

  Hutchins, Michael G ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment modelling; Nitrate; Phytoplankton; Policy; Pollution mitigation; River water quality

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; WATER QUALITY;

CATCHMENT MODELS; CONDITION; ENGLAND; NITRATE POLLUTION; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; POLLUTION MITIGATION; RIVER FLOW; RIVER NETWORK; RIVER WATER QUALITY; RURAL CATCHMENTS;

NITRATES;

NITRATE; PHOSPHORUS; RIVER WATER;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND MANAGEMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MITIGATION; NITRATE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION POLICY; RESIDENCE TIME; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER FLOW; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER SYSTEM; RIVER WATER; RURAL AREA; SOLAR RADIATION; TRIBUTARY; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; LIGHT; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER; RURAL AREA; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TREE; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER;

ENGLAND; NORTH YORKSHIRE; OUSE RIVER; SWALE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; URE RIVER;

EID: 84861707971     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.04.045     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Addiscott T.M., Whitmore A.P. Simulation of solute leaching in soils of differing permeabilities. Soil Use and Management 1991, 7:94-102.
2. Anthony S.G., Quinn P., Lord E.I. Catchment scale modelling of nitrate leaching. Aspects of Applied Biology 1996, 46:23-32.
3. Anthony S.G., Silgram M., Collins A.L., Fawcett L.E. Modelling nitrate river water quality for policy support. International Journal of River Basin Management 2009, 7:259-275.
4. Arnold J.G., Srinivasan R., Muttiah R.S., Williams J.R. Large area hydrologic modelling and assessment. Part 1: model development. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1998, 34:73-89.
5. Boorman D.B., Hollis J.M., Lilly A. Hydrology of Soil Types: A Hydrologically-based Classification of the Soils of the United Kingdom: Report No. 126 1995, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
6. Bouraoui F., Galbiati L., Bidoglio G. Climate change impacts on nutrient loads in the Yorkshire Ouse catchment (UK). Hydrology and Earth Systems Science 2002, 6:197-209.
7. Bowes M.J., Neal C., Jarvie H.P., Smith J.T., Davies H.N. Predicting phosphorus concentrations in British rivers resulting from the introduction of improved phosphorus removal from sewage effluent. Science of the Total Environment 2010, 408:4239-4250.
8. Bowie G.L., Mills W.B., Pocella D.P., Campbell C.L., Pagenkopf J.R., Rupp G.L., Johnson K.M., Chan P.W.H., Gherini S., Chemberlain C.E. Rates, Constants and Kinetic Formulations in Surface Water Quality Modelling 1985, US Environment Protection Agency, Georgia USA.
9. Boyer E.W., Alexander R.B., Parton W.J., Li C., Butterbach-Bahl K., Donner S.D., Skaggs R.W., Del Grosso S.J. Modelling denitrification in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at regional scales. Ecological Applications 2006, 16:2123-2142.
10. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Hydrometric Register and Statistics 1996-2000 2003, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
11. Chambers B.J., Lord E.I., Nicholson F.A., Smith K.A. Predicting nitrogen availability and losses following application of organic manures to arable land: MANNER. Soil Use and Management 1999, 15:137-143.
12. Cherry K.A., Shepherd M., Withers P.J.A., Mooney S.J. Assessing the effectiveness of actions to mitigate nutrient loss from agriculture: a review of methods. Science of the Total Environment 2008, 406:1-23.
13. Davies D.B., Sylvester-Bradley R. The contribution of fertiliser nitrogen to leachable nitrogen in the UK: a review. Journal of Science, Food and Agriculture 1995, 68:399-406.
14. DeWalle D.R. Guidelines for riparian vegetative shade restoration based upon a theoretical shaded-stream model. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 2008, 44:1373-1387.
15. Dunn S.M., Vinten A.J.A., Lilly A., DeGroote J., Sutton M.A., McGechan M. Nitrogen risk assessment model for Scotland. 1. Nitrogen leaching. Hydrology and Earth Systems Science 2004, 8:191-204.
16. Fowler D., Smith R.I., Muller J., Hayman G., Vincent K. Changes in the atmospheric deposition of acidifying compounds in the UK between 1986 and 2001. Environmental Pollution 2005, 137:15-26.
17. Fuller R.M., Smith G.M., Sanderson J.M., Hill R.A., Thompson A.G. The UK Land Cover Map 2000: construction of a parcel-based vector map from satellite images. The Cartographic Journal 2002, 39:15-25.
18. Green F.H.W., Harding R.J. Altitudinal gradients of soil temperatures in Europe. Meteorological Magazine 1979, 108:81-91.
19. Hallett S.H., Jones R.J.A., Keay C.A. SEISMIC: a spatial environmental information system for modelling the impact of chemicals. Environmental Modelling: The Next 10 Years 1993, 40-49. Report of a Symposium at The Society of Chemical Industry, London, 16 Dec 1992. A.R.D. Stebbing, K. Travis, P. Matthieson (Eds.).
20. Haygarth P.M., ApSimon H., Betson M., Harris D., Hodgkinson R., Withers P.J.A. Mitigating diffuse phosphorus transfer from agriculture according to cost and efficiency. Journal of Environmental Quality 2009, 38:2012-2022.
21. Heathwaite A.L. Making process-based knowledge usable at the operational level: a framework for modelling diffuse pollution from agricultural land. Environmental Modelling and Software 2003, 18:753-760.
22. Heathwaite A.L., Quinn P.F., Hewett C.J.M. Modelling and managing critical source areas of diffuse pollution from agricultural land using flow connectivity simulation. Journal of Hydrology 2005, 304:446-461.
23. Heinen M. Simplified denitrification models: overview and properties. Geoderma 2006, 133:444-463.
24. Hilton J., O'Hare M., Bowes M.J., Jones J.I. How green is my river? A new paradigm of eutrophication in rivers. Science of the Total Environment 2006, 365:66-83.
25. Hutchins M.G., Dilks C., Davies H.N., Deflandre A. Issues of diffuse pollution model complexity arising from performance benchmarking. Hydrology and Earth Systems Science 2007, 11:647-662.
26. Hutchins M.G., Fezzi C., Bateman I.J., Posen P.E., Deflandre-Vlandas A. Cost-effective mitigation of diffuse pollution: setting criteria for river basin management at multiple locations. Environmental Management 2009, 44:256-267.
27. Hutchins M.G., Johnson A., Deflandre-Vlandas A., Comber S., Posen P., Boorman D.B. Which offers more scope to suppress river phytoplankton blooms: reducing nutrient pollution or riparian shading?. Science of the Total Environment 2010, 408:5065-5077.
28. Hutchins M.G., Deflandre-Vlandas A., Posen P., Davies H.N., Neal C. How do nitrate concentrations respond to changes in land-use? A modelling case-study of headwaters in the River Derwent catchment, North Yorkshire, UK. Environmental Modelling and Assessment 2010, 15:93-109.
29. Johnes P.J. Evaluation and management of the impact of land use change on the nitrogen and phosphorus load delivered to surface waters: the export coefficient modelling approach. Journal of Hydrology 1997, 183:323-349.
30. Johnsson H., Bergstrvm L., Jansson P.E., Paustian K. Simulation of nitrogen dynamics and losses in a layered agricultural soil. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 1987, 18:333-356.
31. Leopold L.B., Maddock T. The hydraulic geometry channels and some physiographic implications. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1953, vol. 252. Washington, DC.
32. Lindenschmidt K.E. The effect of complexity on parameter sensitivity and model uncertainty in river quality modelling. Ecological Modelling 2006, 190:72-86.
33. Lord E.I., Bland G. Leaching of spring-applied fertiliser nitrogen: measurement and simulation. Soil Use and Management 1991, 7:110-114.
34. Lord E.I., Anthony S.G. MAGPIE: a modelling framework for evaluating nitrate losses at national and catchment scales. Soil Use and Management 2000, 16:167-174.
35. Lord E.I., Anthony S.G., Gooday R.D. Assessing the impact of nitrate vulnerable zones in England on nitrate loss from agricultural land. International Journal of River Basin Management 2009, 7:233-243.
36. Neal C., Robson A.J. A summary of river quality data collected within the land-ocean interaction study: core data for the eastern rivers draining to the North Sea. Science of the Total Environment 2000, 251/252:585-666.
37. Neal C., Hilton J., Wade A.J., Neal M., Wickham H. Chlorophyll-a in the rivers of eastern England. Science of the Total Environment 2006, 365:84-104.
38. Nix J. Farm Management Pocketbook 2000, Wye College Press, Ashford, Kent.
39. Posen P., Hutchins M.G., Lovett A., Davies H.N. Identifying the catchment size at which robust estimation sof agricultural land use can be made, and implications for diffuse pollution modelling. Applied Geography 2011, 31:919-929.
40. Raven P.J., Holmes N.T.H., Dawson F.H., Everard M. Quality assessment using River Habitat Survey data. Aquatic Conservation of Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 1998, 8:477-499.
41. Reichert P., Borchardt D., Henze M., Rauch W., Shanahan P., Somlyody L., Vantolleghem P. River water quality model no. 1 (RWQM1): II. Biochemical process equations. Water Science Technology 2001, 43:11-30.
42. Reynolds C.S., Irish A.E., Elliott J.A. The ecological basis for simulating phytoplankton responses to environmental change (PROTECH). Ecological Modelling 2001, 140:271-291.
43. Round C.E., Young A.R., Fox K. A regionally applicable model for estimating flow velocity at ungauged river sites in the UK. Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management 1998, 12:402-405.
44. Scharfe M., Callies U., Blocker G., Petersen W., Schroeder F. A simple Lagrangian model to simulate temporal variability of algae in the Elbe River. Ecological Modelling 2009, 220:2173-2186.
45. Scholefield D., Lockyer D.R., Whitehead D.C., Tyson K.C. A model to predict transformations and losses of nitrogen in UK pastures grazed by beef cattle. Plant and Soil 1991, 132:165-177.
46. Seitzinger S., Styles R., Boyer E.W., Alexander R.B., Billen G., Howarth R., Mayer B., Van Breemen N. Nitrogen retention in rivers: model development and application to watersheds in the northeastern USA. Biogeochemistry 2002, 57/58:199-237.
47. Silgram M., Kirkham F., Mole A., Hutchins M. Nitrogen Losses from Non-agricultural Land in England and Wales: A Review 2005, Final report to Defra. 55pp.
48. Snowling S.D., Kramer J.R. Evaluating modelling uncertainty for model selection. Ecological Modelling 2001, 138:17-30.
49. Soballe D.M., Kimmel B.L. A large-scale comparison of factors influencing phytoplankton abundance in rivers, lakes and impoundments. Ecology 1987, 68:1943-1954.
50. Steele J.H. Environmental control of photosynthesis in the sea. Limnology and Oceanography 1962, 7:137-149.
51. Thompson N., Barrie I.A., Ayles M. The Meteorological Office Rainfall and Evaporation Calculation System (MORECS) 1982, UK MetOffice, Hydrol. Memorandum No. 45, HMSO, London.
52. Wade A.J., Durand P., Beaujouan V., Wessel W.W., Raat K.J., Whitehead P.G., Butterfield D., Rankinen K., Lepisto A. A nitrogen model for European catchments: INCA, new model structure and equations. Hydrology and Earth Systems Science 2002, 6:559-582.
53. Whitehead P.G., Williams R.J., Lewis D.R. Quality simulation along river systems (QUASAR): model theory and development. Science of the Total Environment 1997, 194/195:447-456.