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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6437-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6437-2021
Research article
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20 Dec 2021
Research article |  | 20 Dec 2021

Bending of the concentration discharge relationship can inform about in-stream nitrate removal

Joni Dehaspe, Fanny Sarrazin, Rohini Kumar, Jan H. Fleckenstein, and Andreas Musolff

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Increased nitrate concentrations in surface waters can compromise river ecosystem health. As riverine nitrate uptake is hard to measure, we explore how low-frequency nitrate concentration and discharge observations (that are widely available) can help to identify (in)efficient uptake in river networks. We find that channel geometry and water velocity rather than the biological uptake capacity dominate the nitrate-discharge pattern at the outlet. The former can be used to predict uptake.
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