Efficiency of mitigation measures targeting nutrient losses from agricultural drainage systems: A review

MV Carstensen, F Hashemi, CC Hoffmann, D Zak… - Ambio, 2020 - Springer
Diffusive losses of nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural areas have detrimental effects
on freshwater and marine ecosystems. Mitigation measures treating drainage water before it …

Critical review of technical questions facing low impact development and green infrastructure: A perspective from the Great Plains

JR Vogel, TL Moore, RR Coffman… - Water Environment …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Since its inception, Low Impact Development (LID) has become part of urban stormwater
management across the United States, marking progress in the gradual transition from …

Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands

LA Schulte, J Niemi, MJ Helmers… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services from agricultural lands remain
important challenges in the United States despite decades of spending on natural resource …

Denitrifying bioreactors for nitrate removal: A meta‐analysis

K Addy, AJ Gold, LE Christianson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Meta‐analysis approaches were used in this first quantitative synthesis of denitrifying
woodchip bioreactors. Nitrate removal across environmental and design conditions was …

Yield stability analysis reveals sources of large-scale nitrogen loss from the US Midwest

B Basso, G Shuai, J Zhang, GP Robertson - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Loss of reactive nitrogen (N) from agricultural fields in the US Midwest is a principal cause of
the persistent hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. We used eight years of high resolution …

Optimizing hydraulic retention times in denitrifying woodchip bioreactors treating recirculating aquaculture system wastewater

C Lepine, L Christianson, K Sharrer… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The performance of wood‐based denitrifying bioreactors to treat high‐nitrate wastewaters
from aquaculture systems has not previously been demonstrated. Four pilot‐scale woodchip …

A practice-oriented review of woodchip bioreactors for subsurface agricultural drainage

LE Christianson, A Bhandari… - Applied engineering in …, 2012 - elibrary.asabe.org
Woodchip or denitrification bioreactors are an innovative, engineering-based technology to
reduce the amount of nitrate in agricultural drainage. Increased interest in improving water …

Denitrifying woodchip bioreactor and phosphorus filter pairing to minimize pollution swapping

LE Christianson, C Lepine, PL Sibrell, C Penn… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Pairing denitrifying woodchip bioreactors and phosphorus-sorbing filters provides a unique,
engineered approach for dual nutrient removal from waters impaired with both nitrogen (N) …

Effectiveness of denitrifying bioreactors on water pollutant reduction from agricultural areas

LE Christianson, RA Cooke, CH Hay… - Transactions of the …, 2021 - elibrary.asabe.org
Highlights Denitrifying woodchip bioreactors treat nitrate-N in a variety of applications and
geographies. This review focuses on subsurface drainage bioreactors and bed-style …

Temperature and substrate control woodchip bioreactor performance in reducing tile nitrate loads in east‐central Illinois

MB David, LE Gentry, RA Cooke… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tile drainage is the major source of nitrate in the upper Midwest, and end‐of‐tile removal
techniques such as wood chip bioreactors have been installed that allow current farming …