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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 19, Pages 10660-10666Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es302315d
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- Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute Doctoral Fellowship program
- NOAA Center [NA07OAR432000]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1313897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Renewed harmful algal blooms and hypoxia in Lake Erie have drawn significant attention to phosphorus loads, particularly increased dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) from highly agricultural watersheds. We use the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to model DRP in the agriculture-dominated Sandusky watershed for 1970-2010 to explore potential reasons for the recent increased DRP load from Lake Erie watersheds. We demonstrate that recent increased storm events, interacting with changes in fertilizer application timing and rate, as well as management practices that increase soil stratification and phosphorus accumulation at the soil surface, appear to drive the increasing DRP trend after the mid-1990s. This study is the first long-term, detailed analysis of DRP load estimation using SWAT.
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