TY - JOUR ID - 10.1016/j.jes.2014.06.026 TI - Contribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition to diffuse pollution in a typical hilly red soil catchment in southern China AU - Jianlin Shen AU - Jieyun Liu AU - Yong Li AU - Yuyuan Li AU - Yi Wang AU - Xuejun Liu and Jinshui Wu VL - 26 IS - 9 PB - SP - 1797 EP - 1805 PY - JF - Journal of Environmental Sciences JA - J. Environ. Sci. UR - http://www.jesc.ac.cn/jesc_en/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=2014260905&flag=1 KW - Nitrogen deposition;Wet deposition;Dry deposition;Riverine nitrogen export;Non-point source pollution KW - Nitrogen deposition;Wet deposition;Dry deposition;Riverine nitrogen export;Non-point source pollution AB - Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is currently high and meanwhile diffuse N pollution is also serious in China. The correlation between N deposition and riverine N export and the contribution of N deposition to riverine N export were investigated in a typical hilly red soil catchment in southern China over a two-year period. N deposition was as high as 26.1 to 55.8 kg N/(ha·yr) across different land uses in the studied catchment, while the riverine N exports ranged from 7.2 to 9.6 kg N/(ha·yr) in the forest sub-catchment and 27.4 to 30.3 kg N/(ha·yr) in the agricultural sub-catchment. The correlations between both wet N deposition and riverine N export and precipitation were highly positive, and so were the correlations between NH4+-N or NO3--N wet deposition and riverine NH4+-N or NO3--N exports except for NH4+-N in the agricultural sub-catchment, indicating that N deposition contributed to riverine N export. The monthly export coefficients of atmospheric deposited N from land to river in the forest sub-catchment (with a mean of 14%) presented a significant positive correlation with precipitation, while the monthly contributions of atmospheric deposition to riverine N export (with a mean of 18.7% in the agricultural sub-catchment and a mean of 21.0% in the whole catchment) were significantly and negatively correlated with precipitation. The relatively high contribution of N deposition to diffuse N pollution in the catchment suggests that efforts should be done to control anthropogenic reactive N emissions to the atmosphere in hilly red soil regions in southern China. ER -