Minimising root zone losses has rightly been the main focus in recent years of measures to reduce agricultural land use impacts on freshwater quality. However, root zone losses are just the beginning, as far as managing ...

It is increasingly being recognised in New Zealand that denitrification occurring in the groundwater zone can result in a substantial reduction of the nitrate load leached from agricultural land before this load can reach ...

Land use (source) can only be defensibly linked to an effect on a receiving water body (receptor) if the critical transfer pathways and the hydrological and biogeochemical processes that occur along them are understood. ...