B53K:
Human Alteration of the Phosphorus Cycle: Past, Present, and Future II


Session ID#: 8517

Session Description:
The phosphorus (P) cycle has supported biological productivity for eons through efficient recycling of P. In contrast, most fertilizer P used in global food production comes from mining, not renewable sources, and current human P use has many inefficiencies. The resulting imbalances of the global P cycle endanger food security, degrade water quality, and could be heightened by population growth, changing diets, and agricultural intensification. We solicit submissions that help understand the Anthropocene P cycle broadly, and its linkages to land use, climate, hydrology, coupled biogeochemical cycles, and management, through questions such as:

  • How/why are human P fluxes, and P use, changing?
  • How/why are fluvial P fluxes changing?
  • How much legacy P has accumulated within the Earth’s critical zone, including agricultural soils, rivers, and lakes?
  • What novel technologies and management practices reduce human P use, enable P recycling, and limit P loss from land to water?
Primary Convener:  Stephen M Powers, Washington State University, Pullman, United States
Conveners:  Josephine A Archibald, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Sheila M. Saia, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Chairs:  Todd Walter1, Josephine A Archibald2 and Sheila M. Saia1, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States(2)Seattle University, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stephen M Powers, Washington State University, Pullman, United States
Co-Organized with:
Biogeosciences, Global Environmental Change, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1806 Chemistry of fresh water [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Opportunities For Optimizing The Phosphorus Cycle In The Land-Water Continuum (Invited) (80766)
Philip Matthew Haygarth and Daniel Blackburn, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom
A Large Contribution of Combustion-related Emissions to the Atmospheric Budget of Phosphorus (61446)
Rong Wang1, Yves Balkanski2, Olivier Boucher1, Philippe Ciais3, Josep Penuelas4 and Shu Tao5, (1)Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France, (2)LSCE, CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191, Gif sur Yvette, France, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (4)Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Barcelona Bellaterra, Spain, (5)Peking University, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
A Substance Flow Model for Global Phosphorus (Invited) (60041)
David A Vaccari, Stevens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States
Poly-P storage by natural biofilms in streams with varying biogeochemistry (83636)
Hunter J Carrick, Central Michigan University, Biology, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States
Legacy phosphorus in the Baltic Sea and implications for reversing eutrophication (Invited) (62049)
Michelle L McCrackin1, Bo Gustafsson2, Christoph Humborg1, Bongghi Hong3, Annika Svanbäck1, Dennis P Swaney3 and Lena Viktorsson2, (1)Stockholm University, Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Cornell University, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States
Closing the Phosphorus Loop by Recovering Phosphorus From Waste Streams With Layered Double Hydroxide Nanocomposites and Converting the Product into an Efficient Fertilizer (76845)
Hanlu Yan and Kaimin Shih, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shaping Future Phosphorus Management Pathways by Understanding the Past and Present (Invited) (61042)
Genevieve Suzanne Metson1,2, Jana Compton3, Dana Cordell4, John Harrison2 and David Iwaniec5, (1)US National Research Council of the National Academies, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Washington State University Vancouver, School of the Environment, Vancouver, WA, United States, (3)Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis, Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (5)Arizona State University, Global Institute of Sustainability, Tempe, United States

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