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Modeling the impact of legacy nitrogen accumulated in agricultural soil-groundwater on water quality improvement (Page 1)

Modeling the impact of legacy nitrogen accumulated in agricultural soil-groundwater on water quality improvement

Zhou, J, Jiao X, Wu H, Zhang Y, Pan Z, Pan Y, Zhang Z, Cheng Z, Hu M, Zhang Q, and Chen D ·
2025

Nitrogen (N) legacy effects are widely recognized as a primary obstacle to the improvements of water quality following mitigation efforts. The exploration of long-term nutrient trajectories for nitrogen model (ELEMeNT-N) has been applied to estimate legacy effects in several watersheds globally. However, ELEMeNT-N does not account for the accumulation-release processes of nitrate within soil profile, introducing potential uncertainty in long-term simulations.

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Spatiotemporal variations of cropland phosphorus runoff loss in China

Pan Z, Zhang Y, Ma L, Zhou J, Wang Y, Wu K, Zhang Q, and Chen D ·
2025

Quantitative assessment of cropland phosphorus (P) loss via surface runoff is essential for developing effective pollution mitigation strategies. In this study, we compiled 812 datasets from 114 peer-reviewed papers for cropland P loss across China.

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Spatial distribution of agricultural residue from rice for potential biofuel production in China

Elmore AJ, Shi X, Gorence NJ, Li X, Jin H, Wang F, and Zhang X ·
2008

In China, agricultural residues (particularly from rice) are widely used for energy and other applications, albeit on a localized scale and often at poor rates of efficiency. if some portion of this biomass were to be reallocated and transported to central biomass energy facilities, an initial component of the design process would be to gain an understanding of the spatial distribution of biomass production.

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