Within-River Phosphorus Retention: Accounting for a Missing Piece in the Watershed Phosphorus Puzzle

Within-river phosphorus retention: accounting for a missing piece in the watershed phosphorus puzzle.

The prevailing "puzzle" in watershed phosphorus (P) management is how to account for the nonconservative behavior (retention and remobilization) of P along the land-freshwater continuum. This often hinders our attempts to directly link watershed P sources with their water quality impacts. Here, we examine aspects of within-river retention of wastewater effluent P and its remobilization under hi...

Global phosphorus retention by river damming.

More than 70,000 large dams have been built worldwide. With growing water stress and demand for energy, this number will continue to increase in the foreseeable future. Damming greatly modifies the ecological functioning of river systems. In particular, dam reservoirs sequester nutrient elements and, hence, reduce downstream transfer of nutrients to floodplains, lakes, wetlands, and coastal mar...

Impact of phosphorus control measures on in-river phosphorus retention associated with point source pollution

In-river phosphorus retention alters the quantity and timings of phosphorus delivery to downstream aquatic systems. Many intensive studies of in-river phosphorus retention have been carried out but generally on a short time scale (2–4 years). In this paper, monthly water quality data, collected by the Environment Agency of England and Wales over 12 years (1990–2001), were used to model daily ph...

Phosphorus Retention in Sediments

Phosphate is usually the most important growth limiting nutrient in aquatic environments-The availability of P is the result of external load and retention in the sediments. This latter is the result of a number of transport, microbial and chemical processes. 'The role of P in the productivity in systems and in the eutrophication process has initiated a large number of studies to the behaviour ...

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