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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 44, 期 9, 页码 4143-4151出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072630
关键词
catchment; chemostatic export; solute export; water quality; biogeochemistry; water travel times
资金
- research program (POF) of the Helmholtz Association
- F, Lee A. Rieth Endowment in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch project [FLA-SWS005461]
- National Science Foundation
- LTER
- LTREB
- A. W. Mellon Foundation
- National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Program, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station [DEB 1440409]
- Oregon State University
Relationships between in-stream dissolved solute concentrations (C) and discharge (Q) are useful indicators of catchment-scale processes. We combine a synthesis of observational records with a parsimonious stochastic modeling approach to test how C-Q relationships arise from spatial heterogeneity in catchment solute sources coupled with different timescales of reactions. Our model indicates that the dominant driver of emergent archetypical dilution, enrichment, and constant C-Q patterns was structured heterogeneity of solute sources implemented as correlation of source concentration to travel time. Regardless of the C-Q pattern, with weak correlation between solute-source concentration and travel time, we consistently find lower variability in C than in Q, such that the predominant solute export regime is chemostatic. Consequently, the variance in exported loads is determined primarily by variance of Q. Efforts to improve stream water quality and ecological integrity in intensely managed catchments should lead away from landscape homogenization by introducing structured source heterogeneity.
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