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dc.contributor.authorCasson, Nora J.
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Henry F.
dc.contributor.authorHiggins, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-14T21:17:04Z
dc.date.available2019-03-14T21:17:04Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationCasson, Nora J., Henry F. Wilson, and Stephanie Higgins. "Hydrological and seasonal controls of phosphorus in Northern Great Plains agricultural streams." Journal of Environmental Quality, in press.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0047-2425
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10680/1642
dc.descriptionPostprinten_US
dc.description.abstractControls on nutrient transport in cold, low relief agricultural regions vary dramatically among seasons. The spring snowmelt is often the dominant runoff and nutrient loading event of the year. However, climate change may increase the proportion of runoff occurring with rainfall and there is an urgent need to understand seasonal controls on nutrient transport in order to understand how patterns may change in the future. In this study, we assess patterns and drivers of total phosphorus (TP) dynamics in eight streams draining agriculturally-dominated watersheds, located in southern Manitoba, Canada. Data from three years of monitoring revealed highly coherent patterns of TP concentrations in streams, with pronounced peaks in the spring and mid- summer across the region. This coherent pattern was in spite of considerable interannual variability in the magnitude and timing of discharge; in particular, a major storm event occurred in summer 2014, which resulted in more discharge than the preceding spring melt. Concentration-discharge model fits were generally poor or not significant, suggesting that runoff generation is not the primary driver of TP dynamics in the majority of streams. Seasonal patterns of conductivity and stream temperature suggest mechanisms controlling TP vary by season; a spring TP concentration maximum may be related to surface runoff over frozen soils while the summer TP maximum may be related to temperature-driven biogeochemical processes, which are not well-represented in current conceptual or predictive models. These findings suggest that controls on stream TP concentrations are dynamic through the year, and responses to increases in dormant and non-dormant season temperatures may depend on seasonally-variable processes.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAlliance of Crop, Soil., and Environmental Science Societiesen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.titleHydrological and seasonal controls of phosphorus in Northern Great Plains agricultural streamsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2134/jeq2018.07.0281


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