Building wetlands in small arable streams is a popular supplement to best management practice on arable fields. Particle bound phosphorus settles in the small constructed wetlands (CWs), receiving agricultural diffuse pollution. The sorption behavior of phosphorus is, however, redox-sensitive, and bound phosphorus may be remobilized in periods with low redox potential. This paper investigates c...

Intensive vegetable farming has the potential to damage soil health, leading to poor productivity and large environmental impacts. This paper reports on changes in soil properties after three and a half years of vegetable cropping and discusses the implications for sustainability. A vegetable farming-systems experiment began in 1992 at Somersby, in NSW, Australia. The aim of the experiment was ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the proportion of patients who met National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF-K/DOQI) guidelines for mineral status, and assessed the cost of therapy for mineral management of patients under haemodialysis treatment in Spain. METHODS Demographic and biochemical data were collected for 1312 patients undergoing standard three-times ...

Lake 227, a small lake in the Precambrian Shield at the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), has been fertilized for 37 years with constant annual inputs of phosphorus and decreasing inputs of nitrogen to test the theory that controlling nitrogen inputs can control eutrophication. For the final 16 years (1990-2005), the lake was fertilized with phosphorus alone. Reducing nitrogen inputs increasingly ...

Phosphorus is a macronutrient that plays a number of important roles in plants. It is a component of nucleic acids, so it plays a vital role in plant reproduction, of which grain production is an important result. It is also critical in biological energy transfer processes that are vital for life and growth. Adequate phosphorus results in higher grain production, improved crop quality, greater ...

Recently, phosphorus (P) has become a material that is the focus of many countries, including EU, due to its scarcity. EU countries significantly depend on P export/import lack extraction and deposits. In this paper, an economic analysis management in Slovakia as source for responsible sustainable exploitation reuse presented based available sources, whether traditional (P rock mining), recover...

Historically, management strategies in Canada’s boreal forest have focused on forestpolygons and terrestrial biodiversity to address ecological considerations in forestmanagement. However, efficient management strategies in Canada’s boreal forest mustconsider ecological processes from a watershed perspective. The Boreal Plain ecozone of theCanadian boreal forest is exemplified b...

BACKGROUND Phosphate binders (PBs) account for about one half of the daily pill burden for US hemodialysis (HD) patients, which may reduce adherence. Adherence can be estimated by the medication possession ratio (MPR), which is defined as the proportion of time a patient had sufficient medication to have taken it as prescribed. Gaps of time between prescription fills lower the patient's MPR. We...

Phosphorus pollution from excessive litter application causes eutorphication of lakes in the Eucha-Spavinaw watershed in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. Consequent algal blooms impair the taste of municipal water supply drawn from the watershed. The paper shows how GIS data based biophysical modeling can be used to derive spatially optimal, least-cost allocation of management practices t...

Three bioretention field sites in North Carolina were examined for pollutant removal abilities and hydrologic performance. The cells varied by fill media type or drainage configuration. The field studies confirmed high annual total nitrogen mass removal rates at two conventionally drained bioretention cells 40% reduction each . Nitrate-nitrogen mass removal rates varied between 75 and 13%, and ...