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DOI 10.3390/w13182601
Licence creative commons licence
Title (Primary) The effects of soil drying out and rewetting on nitrogen and carbon leaching—results of a long-term lysimeter experiment
Author Rupp, H.; Tauchnitz, N.; Meissner, R.
Source Titel Water
Year 2021
Department BOSYS
Volume 13
Issue 18
Page From art. 2601
Language englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords climate change; drought; lysimeter; climatic water balance; nitrogen; dissolved organic carbon
Abstract As a result of global climate change, heavy rainfall events and dry periods are increasingly occurring in Germany, with consequences for the water and solute balance of soils to be expected. The effects of climate change on nitrogen and carbon leaching were investigated using 21 non-weighable manually filled lysimeters of the UFZ lysimeter facility Falkenberg, which have been managed since 1991 according to the principles of the best management practices and organic farming. Based on a 29-year dataset (precipitation, evaporation, leachate, nitrate and dissolved organic carbon concentrations), the lysimeter years 1995/96, 2018/19, and 2003/04 were identified as extremely dry years. Under the climatic conditions in northeastern Germany, seepage fluxes were disrupted in these dry years. The reoccurrence of seepage was associated with exceptionally high nitrogen concentrations and leaching losses, which exceeded the current drinking water limits by many times and may result in a significant risk to water quality. In contrast, increased DOC leaching losses occurred primarily as a result of increased seepage fluxes.
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Rupp, H., Tauchnitz, N., Meissner, R. (2021):
The effects of soil drying out and rewetting on nitrogen and carbon leaching—results of a long-term lysimeter experiment
Water 13 (18), art. 2601 10.3390/w13182601