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Connecting the Past with Restoration Futures: Integrating Legacy Thinking into Environmental Decision-Making
Basu, N.B., K.J. Van Meter, E. Bennett, E. Bernhardt, S. Inamdar, M. McCrackin
Environmental Research Letters
Systems-level Response of Nitrogen Uptake to Nitrogen Inputs in U.S. Agriculture
Kumanan, V., C. Raj, S. Imak, K.J. Van Meter, J. Dhillon
Journal of the ASABE
The Geometry of Flow: Advancing Predictions of River Geometry with Multi-Model Machine Learning
Chang, S.Y., K.J. Van Meter, C. Shen
Water Resources Research
Decadal Changes in Microplastic Accumulation in Freshwater Sediments: Evaluating Influencing Factors
Bussarakum, J., W. Burgos, S. Cohen, K.J. Van Meter, J. Sweetman, P. J. Drohan, R. Najjar, et al.
The Science of the Total Environment
Road Salt Legacies: Quantifying Fluxes of Chloride in Groundwater and Surface Water across the Chicago MSA
Van Meter, K.J., E. Ceisel
Water Resources Research
A century of Nitrogen Dynamics in Agricultural Watersheds of Denmark
Desirifer, B., G. Blicher-Mathiesen, H.E. Andersen, B. Gustafsson, B. Muller-Karulis, M. McCrackin, K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu, C. Humborg
Environmental Research Letters
Data-driven approaches demonstrate legacy N accumulation in Upper Mississippi River Basin groundwater
Van Meter, K.J., V.O. Schultz, S.Y. Chang
Environmental Research Letters
Widespread increases in soluble phosphorus concentrations in streams across the transboundary Great Lakes basin
Singh, N., K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu
Nature Geoscience
Memory and Management: Competing Controls on Long-Term Nitrate Trajectories in U.S. Rivers
Van Meter, K.J., D.K. Byrnes, N.B. Basu
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
A random forest in the Great Lakes: Exploring nutrient water quality signatures in the Laurentian Great Lakes Watersheds
Basu, N.B., J. Dony, K.J. Van Meter, S.J. Johnston, A.T. Layton
Earth's Future
Chesapeake Legacies: The importance of legacy nitrogen to improving Chesapeake Bay water quality
Chang, S., Q. Zhang, D.K. Byrnes, N.B. Basu, K.J. Van Meter
Environmental Research Letters
Beyond the mass balance: Watershed phosphorus legacies and the evolution of the current water quality policy challenge
Van Meter, K.J., M. McLeod, J. Liu, G.T. Tenkouano, R.I. Hall, P. Van Cappellen, N.B. Basu
Water Resources Research
Checkered Landscapes: Nitrogen in the Grand River Watershed
Liu, J., K.J. Van Meter, M. MacLeod, N.B. Basu
Environmental Research Letters
Nitrogen legacies in anthropogenic landscapes: a case study in the Mondego Basin in Portugal
Marques, J., J. Liu, M.C. Cunha, K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Agricultural Phosphorus Surplus Trajectories for Ontario, Canada (1961-2016) and Erosional Export Risk
Van Staden, T.L., K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu, C.T. Parsons, Z.A Akbarzadeh, P. Van Cappellen
Science of the Total Environment
Intensive Agriculture, Nitrogen Legacies, and Water Quality: Intersections and Implications
Ilampooranan, I., K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu
Environmental Research Letters
Managing Nitrogen Legacies to Accelerate Water Quality Improvement
N.B. Basu, K.J. Van Meter, R. Brouwer, D.K. Byrnes, M. Cunha, B. Jacobsen, J.Jarjo, N. Nelson, S. Boye Olsen, D.L. Rudolph, P. Van Cappellen
Nature Geoscience
Long-term annual soil nitrogen surplus across Europe (1850 – 2019)
Batool, M., F. Sarrazin, S. Attinger, N.B. Basu, K.J. Van Meter, R. Kumar
Nature Scientific Data
Pulling the Rabbit out of the Hat: Unravelling Nitrogen Legacies in Catchment-Scale Water Quality Models
Lutz, S., P. Ebeling, A. Musolff, T. Nguyen, F. Sarrazin, J.H. Fleckenstein, S. Attinger, N.B. Basu, K.J. Van Meter, R. Kumar
Hydrologic Processes
Maximizing US nitrate removal through wetland protection and restoration
Cheng, F.Y., K.J. Van Meter, D.K. Byrnes, N.B. Basu
Nature
Long-Term Shifts in U.S. Nitrogen Sources and Sinks Revealed by the New TREND-Nitrogen Dataset (1930-2017)
Byrnes, D.K., K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Is the river a chemostat? Scale versus land use controls on nitrate concentration-discharge dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Marinos, R., K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu
Geophysical Research Letters
Biogeochemical asynchrony: Ecosystem drivers of concentration-discharge dynamics across temporal scales
Van Meter, K.J., S. Chowdhury, D.K. Byrnes, N.B. Basu
Limnology & Oceanography
River dam impacts on biogeochemical cycling
Maavara, T., Q. Chen, K.J. Van Meter, L. Brown, J. Zhang, J. Ni, C. Zarfl
Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
Response to comment on 'Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico'
Van Meter, K.J., P. Van Cappellen, N.B. Basu
Science
A Race against Time: Modelling Time Lags in Watershed Response
Ilampooranan, I., K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu
Water Resources Research
Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico
Van Meter, K.J., P. Van Cappellen, N.B. Basu
Science
The role of groundwater discharge fluxes in Si:P ratios in a major tributary to Lake Erie
Maavara, T., S. Slowinski, F. Rezanezhad, K.J. Van Meter, P. Van Cappellen
The Science of the Total Environment
Time Lags in Watershed-Scale Nutrient Transport: An Exploration of Dominant Controls
Van Meter, K.J., N.B. Basu
Environmental Research Letters
The environmental status and implications of the nitrate time lag in Europe and North America
Vero, S.E., K.G. Richards, P. Mellander, K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu, M.G. Healy, O. Fenton
Hydrogeology Journal
Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions: Status and challenges for research, engineering and management
Thorslund, J., J. Jarsjo, F. Jaramillo, J.W. Jawitz, S. Manzoni, N.B. Basu, S. Chalov, M. Cohen, I. Creed, R. Goldenberg, A. Hylin, Z. Kalantari, A. Koussis, S. Lyon, K. Mazi, J. Mard, H. Persson, J. Pietro Prieto, A. Quin, K.J. Van Meter
Ecological Engineering
Two Centuries of Nitrogen Dynamics: Legacy Sources and Sinks in the Mississippi and Susquehanna River Basins
Van Meter, K.J., N.B. Basu, P. Van Cappellen
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Water Security and Rainwater Harvesting: A Conceptual Framework and Candidate Indicators
Bitterman, P., E. Tate, K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu
Applied Geography
The Nitrogen Legacy: Emerging Evidence of Nitrogen Accumulation in Anthropogenic Landscapes
Van Meter, K.J., N.B. Basu, J.J. Veenstra, C.L. Burras
Environmental Research Letters
The Socio-ecohydrology of Rainwater Harvesting in India: Understanding Water Storage and Release Dynamics at Tank and Catchment Scales
Van Meter, K.J., N.B. Basu, D. McLaughlin, M. Steiff
HESS
Catchment Legacies and Time Lags: A Parsimonious Watershed Model to Predict the Effects of Legacy Storage on Nitrogen Export
Van Meter, K.J. & N.B. Basu
PLoS one
Signatures of Human Impact: Size Distributions and Spatial Organization of Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Landscape
Van Meter, K.J., N.B. Basu
Ecological Applications
Monsoon Harvests: The Living Legacies of Rainwater Harvesting Systems in South India
Van Meter, K.J., N.B. Basu, E. Tate, J. Wyckoff
Environmental Science & Technology
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