Nutrient retention in agricultural headwater stream: artificial manipulation of main-channel morphology and hydrologic condition

Autor: Chao Liu, Ruzhong Li, Yang Fu
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international. 29(55)
ISSN: 1614-7499
Popis: To make up for the deficiency of transient storage and nutrient retention capacity of some headwater streams, some effective artificial measures have been developed to improve the stream ecosystem functions. But few studies have focused on the effects of artificial manipulation on nutrient retention in hydrologic and non-hydrologic processes of streams. In response, we selected an agricultural headwater stream in the Banqiao River tributary of Chaohu Lake Basin, artificially altered the flow pattern in the main-channel by introducing barriers which were composed of soil, coarse sand, and stones, and used the tracer experiment and OTIS (one-dimensional transport with inflow and storage) model to assess the transient storage potential of stream and the nutrient retention of hydrologic and non-hydrologic processes. Compared with the control, the retention capacity of ammonium (NH
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