Nandita B. Basu

TL;DR: For a long-term initiative to address the regional implications of environmental change, hydrologists must become both synthesists and analysts, understanding the functioning of individual system components, while operating firmly within a well-designed hypothesis testing framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use long-term monitoring data from the Mississippi?Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) and the Baltic Sea Drainage Basin (BSDB) to show that inter-annual variations in loads (LT) for total?N (TN) and total?P (TP) exported from a catchment are dominantly controlled by discharge, leading inevitably to temporal invariance of the annual, flow?weighted concentration, Cf = (LT/QT).

TL;DR: It is argued that sustaining landscape functions requires conserving the entire continuum of wetland connectivity, including GIWs, which constitute most of the wetlands in many North American landscapes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale analysis of long-term soil data from 2069 sites throughout the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) revealed that agricultural soils can act as a net N sink.

TL;DR: It is shown that even if agricultural N use became 100% efficient, it would take decades to meet target N loads due to legacy N within the Mississippi River basin, and that both long-term commitment and large-scale changes in agricultural management practices will be necessary to decrease Mississippi N loads.