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The influence of landscape spatial configuration on nitrogen and phosphorus exports in agricultural catchments

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Abstract

Context

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) exports from rural landscapes can cause eutrophication of inland and coastal waters. Few studies have investigated the influence of the spatial configuration of nutrient sources—i.e. the spatial arrangement of agricultural fields in headwater catchments—on N and P exports.

Objectives

This study aimed to (1) assess the influence of the spatial configuration of nutrient sources on nitrate (NO3−) and total phosphorus (TP) exports at the catchment scale, and (2) investigate how relationships between landscape composition (% agricultural land-use) and landscape configuration vary depending on catchment size.

Methods

We analysed NO3− and TP in 19 headwaters (1–14 km², Western France) every two weeks for 17 months. The headwater catchments had similar soil types, climate, and farming systems but differed in landscape composition and spatial configuration. We developed a landscape configuration index (LCI) describing the spatial organisation of nutrient sources as a function of their hydrological distance to streams and flow accumulation zones. We calibrated the LCI’s two parameters to maximise the rank correlation with median concentrations of TP and NO3−.

Results

We found that landscape composition controlled NO3− exports, whereas landscape configuration controlled TP exports. For a given landscape composition, landscape spatial configuration was highly heterogeneous at small scales (< 10 km2) but became homogeneous at larger scales (> 50 km2).

Conclusions

The spatial configuration of nutrient sources influences TP but not NO3− exports. An ideal placement of mitigation measures to limit diffuse TP export should consider both the hydrological distance to streams and flow accumulation zones.

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Data availability

This study is based on a recently published dataset entitled Repeated synoptic sampling for water chemistry monitoring in the Yvel catchment, northwestern France available at https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/7c7d7f6dd1f14450883ae1c243c3c28f/ (Dupas et al. 2020). It contains the hydrochemical data and the geographic information of the study site.

Code availability

The code (R script) produced to analyse the data and produce the Figures is available at https://github.com/Antoine-CSQN/landscape-configuration-paper.

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    Antoine Casquin, Rémi Dupas & Patrick Durand

  2. OSUR, Géosciences Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6118, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes, France

    Sen Gu, Ewan Couic & Gérard Gruau

  3. Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China

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Casquin, A., Dupas, R., Gu, S. et al. The influence of landscape spatial configuration on nitrogen and phosphorus exports in agricultural catchments. Landscape Ecol 36, 3383–3399 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01308-5

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