Nutrient Cycling and Removal in Watersheds
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2025 | Viewed by 94
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nutrient pollution is one of the most serious and costly environmental crises, with adverse effects that significantly impact water safety, aquatic ecosystems, human health, and economic activities on a global scale. Understanding and managing nutrient cycling and removal in watersheds is therefore critical for developing effective strategies to mitigate these wide-ranging impacts and ensure the long-term health of aquatic ecosystems, water sustainability, and human benefits.
This Special Issue, “Nutrient Cycling and Removal in Watersheds”, will concentrate on the dynamics of nutrients within receiving waterbodies and watershed ecosystems, emphasizing both natural cycling processes and removal and management strategies. Its scope encompasses:
- Nutrient Cycling: examining the source, mobilization, and delivery of nutrients through various components of watershed ecosystems, including the soil, water, vegetation, and atmosphere.
- Removal Mechanisms: investigating natural and technological or engineered processes for nutrient removal within watersheds, such as riparian buffers, wetlands, and advanced wastewater treatment systems.
- Watershed-scale Nutrient Management: exploring integrated approaches to nutrient management at the watershed level, considering land use patterns, hydrological processes, and ecosystem services.
- Eutrophication Prevention: focusing on strategies to prevent excess nutrient loading into aquatic systems, thereby mitigating the risk of eutrophication and algal blooms.
- Nutrient Stoichiometry: analyzing how nutrient ratios change throughout the watershed and impact the ecosystem’s functioning and services.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive overview of current research on nutrient cycling and removal strategies within watershed contexts, emphasizing both our theoretical understanding of these processes and their practical applications in watershed management.
Dr. Dan Dai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrient control
- eutrophication
- nutrient stoichiometry
- algae blooms
- nutrient attenuation
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