Sustainable intensification of agricultural drainage

MJ Castellano, SV Archontoulis, MJ Helmers… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Artificial drainage is among the most widespread land improvements for agriculture.
Drainage benefits crop production, but also promotes nutrient losses to water resources …

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 …

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 …

Research progress in solid carbon source–based denitrification technologies for different target water bodies

F Zhang, C Ma, X Huang, J Liu, L Lu, K Peng… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nitrogen pollution in water bodies is a serious environmental issue which is commonly
treated by various methods such as heterotrophic denitrification. In particular, solid carbon …

Application of denitrifying wood chip bioreactors for management of residential non-point sources of nitrogen

EV Lopez-Ponnada, TJ Lynn, M Peterson… - Journal of biological …, 2017 - Springer
Two important and large non-point sources of nitrogen in residential areas that adversely
affect water quality are stormwater runoff and effluent from on-site treatment systems. These …

Enhanced nitrate removal from surface water in a denitrifying woodchip bioreactor with a heterotrophic nitrifying and aerobic denitrifying fungus

Z Yao, L Yang, F Wang, L Tian, N Song, H Jiang - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
A heterotrophic nitrifying and aerobic denitrifying fungus was isolated from lake water and
identified as Penicillium tropicum strain IS0293. The strain exhibited efficient heterotrophic …

Nitrogen and phosphorus removal from agricultural runoff in integrated buffer zones

D Zak, B Kronvang, MV Carstensen… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Integrated buffer zones (IBZs) represent a novel form of edge-of-field technology in
Northwest Europe. Contrary to the common riparian buffer strips, IBZs collect tile drainage …

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 …

Seasonal performance of denitrifying bioreactors in the Northeastern United States: Field trials

B Hassanpour, S Giri, WT Pluer, TS Steenhuis… - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Denitrifying bioreactors are increasingly being used for nitrate removal from agricultural
drainage water. Filled with carbon substrates, often woodchips, denitrifying bioreactors …

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 …