Cristin-resultat-ID: 2002218
Sist endret: 17. februar 2022, 11:49
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2021
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021

Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

Bidragsytere:
  • Taylor Maavara
  • Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn
  • Fadji Maina
  • Reed M. Maxwell
  • James Edward Sample
  • K. Dana Chadwick
  • mfl.

Tidsskrift

PLOS ONE
ISSN 1932-6203
e-ISSN 1932-6203
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2021
Volum: 16
Hefte: 3
Artikkelnummer: e0247907
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85103342037

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Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

Sammendrag

There is a growing understanding of the role that bedrock weathering can play as a source of nitrogen (N) to soils, groundwater and river systems. The significance is particularly apparent in mountainous environments where weathering fluxes can be large. However, our understanding of the relative contributions of rock-derived, or geogenic, N to the total N supply of mountainous watersheds remains poorly understood. In this study, we develop the High-Altitude Nitrogen Suite of Models (HAN-SoMo), a watershed-scale ensemble of process-based models to quantify the relative sources, transformations, and sinks of geogenic and atmospheric N through a mountain watershed. Our study is based in the East River Watershed (ERW) in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The East River is a near-pristine headwater watershed underlain primarily by an N-rich Mancos Shale bedrock, enabling the timing and magnitude of geogenic and atmospheric contributions to watershed scale dissolved N-exports to be quantified. Several calibration scenarios were developed to explore equifinality using >1600 N concentration measurements from streams, groundwater, and vadose zone samples collected over the course of four years across the watershed. When accounting for recycling of N through plant litter turnover, rock weathering accounts for approximately 12% of the annual dissolved N sources to the watershed in the most probable calibration scenario (0–31% in other scenarios), and 21% (0–44% in other scenarios) when considering only “new” N sources (i.e. geogenic and atmospheric). On an annual scale, instream dissolved N elimination, plant turnover (including cattle grazing) and atmospheric deposition are the most important controls on N cycling.

Bidragsytere

Taylor Maavara

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Yale University

Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Fadji Maina

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Reed M. Maxwell

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Princeton University

James Edward Sample

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Miljøinformatikk ved Norsk institutt for vannforskning
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