Salvano, Esther; Flaten, Don N.; Rousseau, Alain N. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3439-2124 et Quilbé, Renaud
(2009).
Are Current Phosphorus Risk Indicators Useful to Predict the Quality of Surface Waters in Southern Manitoba, Canada?
Journal of Environmental Quality
, vol. 38
, nº 5.
pp. 2096-2105.
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0159.
Résumé
Many phosphorus (P) risk indicators have been developed to assess the risk of P loss from agricultural land to surface water. Most of these indicators are designed for land and climates where rainfall-induced erosion of particulate P from sloping landscapes is the main process of P transport. No indicators have been validated in the Canadian Prairies, where P losses are driven by snowmelt-driven runoff over nearly level landscapes and frozen soils. The objective of this project was to evaluate the relationship between water quality data for P from 14 watersheds and three existing P risk indicators for their potential use in the southern Manitoba prairie region of Canada. None of the indicators, including Birr and Mulla's P Index, a preliminary P risk indicator for Manitoba, and a preliminary version of Canada's National Indicator of Risk of Water Contamination by Phosphorus, was significantly correlated with mean concentrations of total P in water or P export per hectare. Although erosion risk was a significant factor influencing the value of these indexes, erosion risk was not correlated with either measure of P loss in these watersheds. Several other watershed characteristics, including average soil test P concentrations, livestock density, proportion of land in annual crops, and the land's inherent capability for agricultural production, were strongly correlated with P concentrations in water (r = 0.80***, r = 0.63**, 0.76***, and -0.70**, respectively). Therefore, these types of P risk indicators require modifications to estimate the risk of P loss under the soil, landscape, and climatic conditions of southern Manitoba.
| Type de document: | Article |
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| Mots-clés libres: | phosphore; qualité des eaux; |
| Centre: | Centre Eau Terre Environnement |
| Date de dépôt: | 05 août 2022 15:35 |
| Dernière modification: | 21 nov. 2022 16:22 |
| URI: | https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/10755 |
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