Fertilizers and nitrate pollution of surface and ground water: an increasingly pervasive global problem

E Craswell - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Nitrate pollution of ground and surface water bodies all over the world is generally linked
with continually increasing global fertilizer nitrogen (N) use. But after 1990, with more …

The deep challenge of nitrate pollution in river water of China

X Zhang, Y Zhang, P Shi, Z Bi, Z Shan, L Ren - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nitrate pollution of surface water has attracted global attention, and the issue is becoming
increasingly significant in China. To identify the pollution status, sources, and potential non …

A biological and nitrate isotopic assessment framework to understand eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems

A Romanelli, DX Soto, I Matiatos, DE Martínez… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Eutrophication is a globally significant challenge facing aquatic ecosystems, mostly
associated with human induced enrichment of these ecosystems with nitrogen and …

Determining nitrate pollution sources in the Kabul Plain aquifer (Afghanistan) using stable isotopes and Bayesian stable isotope mixing model

A Zaryab, HR Nassery, K Knoeller, F Alijani… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kabul urban aquifer (Afghanistan), which is the main source of drinking water
for Kabul city's inhabitants, is highly vulnerable to anthropogenic pollution. In this study, the …

Multiple isotopes reveal a hydrology dominated control on the nitrogen cycling in the Nujiang River Basin, the last undammed large river basin on the Tibetan Plateau

H Jiang, W Liu, Y Li, J Zhang, Z Xu - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Tibetan Plateau is sensitive to climate change, but the feedbacks of nitrogen (N) cycling
to climate conditions on this plateau are not well-understood, especially under varying …

δ15N and δ18O Reveal the Sources of Nitrate-Nitrogen in Urban Residential Stormwater Runoff

YY Yang, GS Toor - Environmental science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) sources are widely distributed in the complex urban environment. High-
resolution data elucidating N sources in the residential catchments are not available. We …

Unraveling influences of nitrogen cycling on arsenic enrichment in groundwater from the Hetao Basin using geochemical and multi-isotopic approaches

Z Gao, H Weng, H Guo - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Sources and co-cycling of nitrogen species in arsenic-prone groundwater remain poorly
understood, which could affect arsenic behavior. Here, geochemical and multi-isotopic …

Quantification of nitrate sources and fates in rivers in an irrigated agricultural area using environmental isotopes and a Bayesian isotope mixing model

Y Zhang, P Shi, F Li, A Wei, J Song, J Ma - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Nitrate (NO 3−) pollution in rivers caused by intensive human activities is becoming
a serious problem in irrigated agricultural areas. To identify NO 3− sources and reveal the …

Application of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes for source and fate identification of nitrate pollution in surface water: a review

Y Zhang, P Shi, J Song, Q Li - Applied sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Nitrate pollution in surface water has become an environmental problem of global concern.
The effective way for controlling the nitrate pollution of surface water is to identify the …

Tracing nitrate sources in the groundwater of an intensive agricultural region

X Kou, J Ding, Y Li, Q Li, L Mao, C Xu, Q Zheng… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agricultural non-point contaminants are the main source of groundwater nitrate in China.
The source and transformation of groundwater nitrate in the intensive agricultural region …