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HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
Volume 25, Issue 15, Pages 2329-2338Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7987
Keywords
runoff monitoring; particulate phosphorus; particle size; fine-grained sediment
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Phosphorus (P) export from agricultural lands above known threshold levels can result in adverse impacts to receiving water quality. Phosphorus loss occurs in dissolved and sediment-bound, or particulate phosphorous (PP), forms, with the latter often dominating losses from row-cropped systems. To target practices, land managers need good computer models and model developers need good monitoring data. Sediment monitoring data (e. g. radiometric finger printing and sediment P sorption capacity) can help identify sediment source areas and improve models, but require more sediment mass than is typically obtained by automatic sampling. This study compares a simple suspended sediment sampler developed at the University of Exeter (UE) with automatic sampling in intermittent channels draining corn and alfalfa fields. The corn field had a greater runoff coefficient (27%) than alfalfa (11%). No differences were found in enrichment ratios (sediment constituent/soil constituent) in PP (PPER) or percent loss on ignition (LOIER) between paired UE samplers on corn. The median LOIER for the UE samplers (1.9%) did not differ significantly (p > 0.13) from the automatic sampler (2.0%). The PPER from the UE samplers was on average 20% lower than the automatic samplers. A correlation (r(2) = 0.75) was found between sediment PP and % LOI from automatic samplers and UE samplers for particles < 50 mu m, while for > 50 mu m PP concentration did not change with changes in % LOI. Sediment ammonium-oxalate extractable metals were similarly related to LOI, with the strongest correlation for iron (r(2) = 0.71) and magnesium (r(2) = 0.70). Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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