Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area

Tao Jiang; Zhiming Yu; Xiuxian Song; Xihua Cao

doi:10.1007/s00343-012-1306-5

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Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area

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- Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area
- Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area
- 海洋湖沼学报（英文） 2012年30卷第4期页码：654-667
- Affiliations：
  
  1. Research Center for Harmful Algae and Marine Biology Jinan University
  2. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Author bio：
- Funds：
  
  Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-YW-Q07-02), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2010CB428706), the Fund for Creative Research Groups of NSFC (No. 41121064), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41106090);The institutions are sorted in no particular order and contributed equally to this work
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-012-1306-5
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- 网络首发：2012-07-02，
  
  纸质出版：2012
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Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2012,30(4):654-667.

Jiang, T., Yu, Z., Song, X. et al. Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 654–667 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1306-5
Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2012,30(4):654-667. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-012-1306-5.

Jiang, T., Yu, Z., Song, X. et al. Nitrogen budget in the Changjiang River drainage area., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 654–667 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1306-5 DOI：

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Abstract

We established a budget model of nitrogen (N) inputs and outputs between watersheds and waterbodies to determine the sources of riverine N in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River drainage area. Nitrogen inputs in the budget included N from synthetic fertilizer

biological fixation by leguminous and other crops

wet/dry atmospheric deposition

excreta from humans and animals

and crop residues. The total N input was estimated to be 17.6 Tg

of which 20% or 3.5 Tg N was transported into waterbodies. Of the total N transported into waterbodies

the largest proportion was N from animal waste (26%)

followed by N from atmospheric wet/dry deposition (25%)

synthetic fertilizer N (17%)

N in sewage wastes (17%)

N in human waste from rural areas (6%) and industrial wastewater N (9%). We studied the spatial patterns of N inputs and outputs by dividing the Changjiang River drainage area into four sub-basins

from upstream to downstream: the Tongtian River drainage area (TTD

the headwater drainage area

138 000 km2

less disturbed by human activities); the Jinsha River drainage area (JSD

347 000 km2

less disturbed by human activities

approx. 3 500 km upstream of the Changjiang estuary); the Pingshan-Yichang drainage area (PYD

520 500 km2

large-scale human disturbance

about 2 000 km upstream of the Changjiang estuary); and the Yichang-Datong drainage area (YDD

699 900 km2

large-scale human disturbance

approx. 620 km upstream of the Changjiang estuary). The average N input into waterbodies was 2.3

7.3

24.1

and 28.2 kg N/ha in the TTD

JSD

PYD

and YDD sub-basins

respectively

suggesting an increase of N-components of more than 10 times from upstream to downstream areas.

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