Reducing Nitrogen Loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin: Strategies to Counter a Persistent Ecological Problem

By William J. Mitsch, J. Day, J. Gilliam, Peter M. Groffman, D. Hey, G. Randall, Naiming Wang. 2001

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Water Science and Technology

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Denitrification across landscapes and waterscapes: a synthesis. (2006, background): “Mitsch et al. (2001) estimated that wetlands in the Mississippi River basin would remove about 15 000 kg N km 2 yr 1 and that riparian buffers (bottomland hardwoods) would remove about 4000 kg N km 2 yr 1.”
Multifunctional Agriculture in the United States (2005, background): “We found that significant environmental changes could be attained through a combination of land-use changes, ranging from individual practices (e.g., adoption of BMPs) to more comprehensive systemic changes (e.g., establishment of perennial plant systems and wetlands; see also Mitsch et al. 2001).”
The Nitrogen Cascade (2003, background): “…to take advantage of the fact that denitrification does occur in wetland and riparian areas (Hill 1996, Hill et al. 2000, Steinhart et al. 2000, Mitsch et al. 2001), and specific management activities can be used to create an environment that will increase this rate (e.g., Schipper and…”
N processing within geomorphic structures in urban streams (2005, background): “Catchment-scale strategies to control N pollution focus on reducing sources (e.g., fertilizer, sewage) and/or increasing sinks of inorganic N (Mitsch et al. 2001, Driscoll et al. 2003, Galloway et al. 2003).”
Linking Landscape and Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin for 200 Years (2003, background): “This finding suggests that strategic restoration of wetlands throughout the upper watershed may be a useful approach to restoring water quality (Mitsch et al. 2001), especially where the nitrate concentration is high (Turner 2003a).”
A new vision for New Orleans and the Mississippi delta: applying ecological economics and ecological engineering (2006, background): “The role of soil organic carbon in maintaining surface elevation in rapidly subsiding US Gulf of Mexico marshes.”
Denitrification in the Upper Mississippi River: rates, controls, and contribution to nitrate flux (2004, background): “If a management goal is to reduce NO3 – flux from the UMR basin (Mitsch et al. 2001), then rerouting some main”
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool: Historical Development, Applications, and Future Research Directions (2007, neutral): “River Basin (Mitsch et al., 2001) and in other regions.”
Chapter 14 – Nitrogen Transformations (2015, background): “Proposed solutions include better management of microbial N transformations in crop ﬁelds as well as the creation of wetland sinks to trap and remove N moving out of agricultural areas (Mitsch et al., 2001).”
Beyond Science into Policy: Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia and the Mississippi River (2002, background): “…incentive-based activities, designed within a series of subbasin strategies, would include best management practices on agricultural lands, wetland restoration and creation, river hydrology remediation and riparian buffer strips, and stormwater and wastewater nutrient removal (Mitsch et al. 2001).”
Establishment and Function of Cover Crops Interseeded into Corn (2018, background): “This offsite movement of nutrients has negative environmental and economic repercussions, including contributions to nitrate (NO3) loading in municipal water supplies and hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico (Gilliam and Skaggs, 1986; Mitsch et al., 2001).”