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Phosphorus Export from an Agricultural Watershed

Linking Source and Transport Mechanisms

Richard McDowell, Andrew Sharpley* and Gordon Folmar

USDA-ARS, Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit, Curtin Road, University Park, PA 16802-3702



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Fig. 1. Location, topography, soil types (grey = Typic Dystrochrept, white = Typic Fragiudult), and instrumentation of Watershed FD-36, Pennsylvania. Letters refer to grab samples taken in October 2000.

 


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Fig. 2. Saturated distance from the stream for each segment for storms that occurred from August to November 1996 (data from Sharpley et al., 1999). The dashed line shows the saturated distance within which 90% of the storms influenced.

 


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Fig. 3. Dissolved reactive P lost in overland flow during a 30-min event for a Typic Fragiudult and Typic Dystrochrept soil. Bars represent percent clay in overland flow collected for the Typic Fragiudult soil.

 


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Fig. 4. The distribution of Mehlich-3 extractable P and the relative erosion potential within the watershed. Yellow lines refers to field boundaries, red to watershed segments, blue to stream channel and green to 30 m from stream channel.

 


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Fig. 5. Sorption isotherms for a Typic Fragiudult and Typic Dystrochrept soil of similar total P concentrations.

 


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Fig. 6. Sorption isotherms for each flume sediment sample fitted to the Langmuir equation.

 


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Fig. 7. Desorption of P at different sediment to water ratios with time for each flume sediment.

 





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