Papers published in a special issue entitled: "Phosphorus in soil and its transfer to water".
Guest editors:
P.M. Haygarth, A. Delgado,
W.J. Chardon, M.I. Litaor,
F. Gil-Sotres, and J. Torrent

Suppl. 1 of vol. 29, 2013, of the journal Soil Use and Management. This issue contains 19 original articles with an Introduction paper.

They are an outcome of the joint meeting of the 6th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW6) and a COST 869 WG1 workshop in Seville, Spain, 26 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2010.

NOTE: all papers are Open Access
[you can use links below].

NOTE: to avoid confusion with a regular issue, please cite papers as below:... Authors. 2013. Title. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):1-4.


The 10 papers below marked with * were presented during the workshop entitled "Phosphorus mobilization and modelling at the field and catchment scales", in which WG 1 of COST 869 took the lead.

Haygarth, P.M., A. Delgado, W.J. Chardon, M.I. Litaor, F. Gil-Sotres, and J. Torrent. 2013. Phosphorus in soils and its transfer to water: from fine scale soil processes to models and solutions in landscapes and catchments. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):1-4. LINK

Eriksson, A.K., B. Ulén, L. Berzina, A. Iital, V. Janssons, A.S. Sileika, and A. Toomsoo. 2013. Phosphorus in agricultural soils around the Baltic Sea - comparison of laboratory methods as indices for phosphorus leaching to waters. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):5-14. LINK

Horta, C., F. Monteiro, M. Madeira, and J. Torrent. 2013. Phosphorus sorption and desorption properties of soils developed on basic rocks under a subhumid Mediterranean climate. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):15-23. LINK

Ahlgren, K., F. Djodjic, G. Börjesson, and L. Mattsson. 2013. Identification and quantification of organic phosphorus forms in soils from fertility experiments. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):24-35. LINK

* Vadas, P.A., C.H. Bolster, and L.W. Good. 2013. Critical evaluation of models used to study agricultural phosphorus and water quality. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):36-44. LINK

Djodjic, F., and L. Mattsson. 2013. Changes in plant-available and easily soluble phosphorus within 1 year after P amendment. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):45-54. LINK

* Litaor, M.I., I. Chashmonai, I. Barnea, O. Reichmann, and M. Shenker. 2013. Assessment of phosphorus fertilizer practices in altered wetland soils using uncertainty analysis. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):55-63. LINK

* Dechmi, F., D. Isidoro, and T. Stambouli. 2013. A phosphorus index for use in intensive irrigated areas. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):64-75. LINK

De Bolle, S., S. De Neve, and G. Hofman. 2013. Rapid redistribution of P to deeper soil layers in P saturated acid sandy soils. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):76-82. LINK

* Panagopoulos, Y., C. Makropoulos, and M. Mimikou. 2013. Multi-objective optimization for diffuse pollution control at zero cost. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):83-93. LINK

Smith, D.R., and S.J. Livingston. 2013. Managing farmed closed depressional areas using blind inlets to minimize phosphorus and nitrogen losses. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):94-102. LINK

Renneson, M., J. Dufey, X. Legrain, V. Genot, L. Bock, and G. Colinet. 2013. Relationships between the P status of surface and deep horizons of agricultural soils under various cropping systems and for different soil types: a case study in Belgium. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):103-113. LINK

* Troitiño, F., C. Trasar-Cepeda, M.C. Leirós, and F. Gil-Sotres. 2013. Validation and modification of the phosphorus loss index as applied to a small catchment. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):114-123. LINK

* Farkas, C., S. Beldring, M. Bechmann, and J. Deelstra. 2013. Soil erosion and phosphorus losses under variable land use as simulated by the INCA-P model. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):124-137. LINK

* Schoumans, O.F., C. van der Salm, and P. Groenendijk. 2013. PLEASE: a simple model to determine P losses by leaching. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):138-146. LINK

* Wall, D.P., P. Jordan, A.R. Melland, P.-E. Mellander, S. Mechan, and G. Shortle. 2013. Forecasting the decline of excess soil phosphorus in agricultural catchments. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):147-154. LINK

McGrath, J.M., C.J. Penn, and F.J. Coale. 2013. A modelling approach to the design of in situ agricultural drainage filters. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):155-161. LINK

Noij, I.G.A.M., M. Heinen, H.I.M. Heesmans, J.T.N.M. Thissen, and P. Groenendijk. 2013. Effectiveness of buffer strips without added fertilizer to reduce phosphorus loads from flat fields to surface waters. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):162-174. LINK

* Scholefield, P., A.L. Heathwaite, R.E. Brazier, T. Page, M. Schärer, K. Beven, R. Hodgkinson, P. Withers, D. Walling, and P.M. Haygarth. 2013. Estimating phosphorus delivery from land to water in headwater catchments using a fuzzy decision tree approach. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):175-186. LINK

* Zhang, T., T. Page, A.L. Heathwaite, K. Beven, D.M. Oliver, and P.M. Haygarth. 2013. Estimating phosphorus delivery with its mitigation measures from soil to stream using fuzzy rules. Soil Use Manage. 29(Suppl. 1):187-198. LINK