Review of soil phosphorus routines in ecosystem models

Review of soil phosphorus routines in ecosystem models

Journal Pre-proof Review of Soil Phosphorus Routines in Ecosystem Models J. Pferdmenges, L. Breuer, S. Julich, P. Kraft PII: S1364-8152(19)30495-5 ...

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Journal Pre-proof Review of Soil Phosphorus Routines in Ecosystem Models

J. Pferdmenges, L. Breuer, S. Julich, P. Kraft PII:

S1364-8152(19)30495-5

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104639

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ENSO 104639

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Environmental Modelling and Software

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29 May 2019

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20 January 2020

Please cite this article as: J. Pferdmenges, L. Breuer, S. Julich, P. Kraft, Review of Soil Phosphorus Routines in Ecosystem Models, Environmental Modelling and Software (2020), https://doi.org/10. 1016/j.envsoft.2020.104639

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Journal Pre-proof Review of Soil Phosphorus Routines in Ecosystem Models J. Pferdmengesa,*, L. Breuera,b, S. Julichc and P. Krafta a

Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Research Centre for

BioSystems, Land Use and Nutrition (iFZ), Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany b

Centre for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig

University Giessen, Senckenbergstrasse 3, 35390 Giessen, Germany c

Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden, Pienner Str. 19,

01737 Tharandt, Germany *Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 641 9937397; E-mail: [email protected] Declarations of interest: none

Highlights: 1. We review phosphorus models, with a focus on terrestrial process representation 2. Transport of colloidal P is important in many soils, but neglected in most models 3. Most models lack processes to simulate preferential flow 4. A model blueprint is presented to overcome current limitations of P modeling Abstract. We compiled information on 26 numerical models, which consider the terrestrial phosphorus (P) cycle and compared them regarding process description, model structure and applicability to different ecosystems and scales. We address the differences in their hydrological components and between their soil P routines, the implementation of a preferential flow component in soils, as well as whether the model performance has been tested for P transport. The comparison of the models revealed that none offers the flexibility for a realistic representation of P transport through different ecosystems and on diverging scales. Especially the transport of P through macroporous soils (e.g. forests) is deficient. Five models represent macropores accurately, but all of them lack a validated P routine. We therefore present a model blueprint to be able to incorporate a physically realistic representation of macropore flow and particulate P transport in forested systems. Keywords: Phosphorus transport; Solute transport; Soil water leaching; Preferential Flow; Macropores; Hydrological models

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1. Introduction Phosphorus (P) is an important nutrient, but a surplus of P can lead to eutrophication of aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, it is important to study transport mechanisms and routes of P from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. For this purpose, it is essential to understand how water and particles are moved within soils in terrestrial ecosystems. Research still focuses mostly on P in agricultural soils (King et al., 2015), whereas P is often neglected in forests and other soils. Hence, current knowledge of P cycling in these ecosystems is still insufficient, although recent studies (e.g., Bol et al., 2016; D. Julich et al., 2017; Sohrt et al., 2017) have shown that P transport is relevant in undisturbed soils. A better understanding of the processes involved may lead to a better comprehensibility of the correlation between different factors, e.g. soil properties, nutrient status and plant health. This is important for forestry, but also a key requirement for predictions of future forest ecosystem changes (Bol et al., 2016), especially with regard to climate change and resulting shifts in precipitation behavior. It is necessary to consider different ecosystems separately because P pools and transport processes differ between them, especially due to dissimilar land management practices and thus differences in the hydrological cycles. The main difference between the hydrological cycles of agriculture and forests is caused by the soil structure. On arable land, plowing and secondary tillage such as harrowing or rotovating leads to a relatively homogeneous structure in the upper soil and thus to a disruption of flow paths (Geohring et al., 2001; Jarvis, 2007). Macropore flow can still be generated in conventionally tilled soils under intense or persistent rain, but studies have shown that macropore flow is more pronounced under no-till arable compared to conventional tillage management (Andersson et al., 2013; Jarvis, 2007). This predominance of macropores is similar in forests or other untilled soils. Animal burrows, fissures, cracks, and root channels lead to the development of a wide network of relatively stable macropores. These promote the formation of preferential flow paths (PFPs) (Bogner et al., 2012; Bundt et al., 2001), resulting in water bypassing large portions of soil without interaction with the matrix. In forests, these heterogeneous runoff characteristics are further facilitated by patchy throughfall and stem flow, which can result in the concentration of large amounts of precipitation water at relatively small areas (Levia and Frost, 2003). In general, P in soils is distributed over different pools, which can be classified based on the form (organic, inorganic) and attachment (dissolved, exchangeable, sorbed). The size of these pools can vary considerably between ecosystems. Prietzel et al. (2016) showed that other factors are even more important for the size of the P pools than the type of ecosystem, for

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Journal Pre-proof example the parent material and stage of pedogenesis. As stated by Frossard et al. (2000) and Julich et al. (2016), soils can contain between 100 and 3000 mg P kg-1 soil. In forest soils, P can be distributed highly variably, with respect to the content, speciation, availability, and source of P (Julich et al., 2016). However, a comparison of the P content between soil matrix and PFPs in a German forest showed no statistically significant differences (D. Julich et al., 2017). In tilled soils, the spatial variability of the P content is reduced compared to undisturbed soils due to the homogenization of the surface soil by plowing. Moreover, fertilization usually leads to a much higher input of P in agroecosystems than in forests (Bol et al., 2016; King et al., 2015). Fertilization often also decreases the diversity of P forms and increases orthophosphate concentrations (Cade-Menun, 2005). While the transport of dissolved P often dominates in the soil water of arable soils, particulate forms can account for a large proportion of total P transported in grassland (Heathwaite and Dils, 2000; Turner and Haygarth, 2000) and forest soils (Bol et al., 2016). This is mostly reasoned by the predominance of PFPs, which enables colloid transport (Beven and Germann, 2013; Vendelboe et al., 2011) and therefore the movement of particulate P. A variety of studies indicate that especially large runoff events lead to the mobilization of high amounts of P in macroporous soils (Bol et al., 2016; S. Julich et al., 2017; Kaiser et al., 2003; King et al., 2015; Ulen, 1995). Contrary, under baseflow conditions, often the amount of dissolved P in the soil solution of forest soils is below the detection limit, which in many laboratories is around 0.03 to 0.05 mg P L-1 (Bol et al., 2016; Mealy, 2011). As a result, movement of P is either only evident over long periods of time or during storm events. Historically, these relatively short extreme events have been mostly neglected when calculating annual P losses. To complement field studies on P pools and transport, computer models are convenient tools. These can be used, for example, for calculations of changes in P storage over time, P loss predictions and balancing, analysis of management or climate change scenarios, as well as for testing hypotheses regarding P cycling mechanisms. Although many hydrological and biogeochemical models exist, only some of them are able to simulate the transport of P through the soil, and a large share of nutrient fate models entirely omit P turnover. The state of P transport and turnover models has been subject to several reviews in the past (e.g. Lewis and McGechan, 2002; Qi and Qi, 2016; Radcliffe et al., 2015; Vadas et al., 2013; Wellen et al., 2015), but most of them only considered a small selection of currently available models. Lewis and McGechan (2002) summarize the state of four catchment models with regard to nitrogen (N) and P losses to groundwater and surface waters following the application of agricultural waste. Processes considered are the transport of soluble and particulate P, surface application (e.g., as fertilizer), mineralization/immobilization, adsorption/desorption, leaching, runoff, and uptake by plants in agricultural systems. Radcliffe et al. (2015) reviewed

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Journal Pre-proof eight models more recently. They examined their suitability for simulating P losses occurring in drainage waters from artificially drained fields. For this purpose, they also included information on macropore flow, but confined to agricultural soils. In another study, Wellen et al. (2015) compared the N and P components of five spatially distributed models. Since the transport through macropores is not considered in their review, the information contained is of limited use for forest soil applications. Qi and Qi (2016) focused in their review on P loss through subsurface tile drains in nine water quality models. Models that cannot simulate tile drainage were excluded. Vadas et al. (2013) also contains information about P transport, but here the emphasis is on the challenges in developing new models. The models considered are compared in regard for diffuse P losses from agricultural soils – preferential flow is not taken into account. These five reviews cover the processes of 17 models in total, but all lack important information with regard to forest ecosystems or other ecosystems with dominating PFPs. To close this gap, we review existing P transport models with a focus on their applicability for agricultural as well as forested ecosystems to simulate not only the transport of dissolved P, but also particulate P. The emphasis of this work is not the calculation of total P losses, but the documentation of processes involved as well as potential improvements in process representation. As an analytical framework, we focus on the representation of the following model features: -

Temporal and spatial scale

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P pools and forms

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Mechanisms of surface and subsurface transport with a focus on different flow paths for dissolved and particulate transport

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Soil water solution interactions with the soil matrix

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P uptake by vegetation.

We apply this framework to a large number of environmental models that simulate transport of P or generalized nutrients. Thereby we consider models of different scales (from plot to catchment scale) and complexity. In contrast to the previous reviews, we establish a broad overview of all available models for the simulation of P transport.

2. Scope of models included The most important criterion for a model to be included in this review is the ability to simulate P cycling or the transport of solutes in general through soils. To find suitable models we searched ISI Web of Science database, using keywords like “phosph*”, “solute(s)”, “transport”

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Journal Pre-proof or “leach*” in combination with “(hydrological) model(l)-ing”. Some models were also reported to us personally or found because they were referenced in scientific papers, instead of finding them via Web of Science. We included all dynamic numeric models found this way that were used for the modeling of P, regardless of the complexity of the transport mechanisms or whether a validation for P transport exists. In total, we found 26 models that could be used for the investigation of P transport in soils. For a first classification, we analyzed the model types. These can be divided into processbased, conceptual, and empirical. While for process-based and conceptual models a theoretical understanding of relevant processes is necessary (Cuddington et al., 2013), empirical models are based on empirical observations and do not make any statement about the underlying mechanisms and influencing variables. Both process-based and conceptual models are mechanistic models based on a biogeochemical background. While process-based models try to represent the processes as accurately as possible, conceptual models are created by a distinct conceptualization or generalization. Consequently, they are greatly abstracted and simplified. However, most models cannot be clearly assigned to one of these types, as they often contain components from more than one type (Addiscott and Wagenet, 1985). We summarized these models as ‘mixed type’ models. Despite this uniform term, these models can differ greatly from one another. While some models are mainly process-based, but with some conceptualized features, other models are contrary. As a clear guidance to differentiate process-based and conceptual models, we decided to define all models that include the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) for transport simulation and a complex nutrient routine (see below) as process-based. Models that include only simplified transport and nutrient components are defined as conceptual, while models with either a simplified transport component or a simplified nutrient component are mixed types. In addition to this distinguishing feature, other important model characteristics are for example the spatial and temporal scales. The spatial scale determines the way individual processes are represented in the models. Micro scale models (i.e. soil profile and plot scales) only simulate vertical infiltration and transport processes, but no lateral processes. Large-scale approaches simulate the processes for example on hillslope or catchment level. The temporal scale of the models also differs significantly. While some models are only able to represent very short time periods, e.g. single precipitation events, other models can simulate periods over one or several years (see section 2.2). Another distinction is the amount of data required for parameterization of the model (Sharpley et al., 2002). This is closely related to the level of complexity of represented processes and therefore to the model type. Typical required data include land use, soil texture, topography,

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Table 1. Overview of general model properties. Additional information on the spatial and temporal scale of each model is provided in section 2.2. A list with the most important references for each model as well as for P routine validation/testing can be found in Table-A 1 in the appendix. Model

Language

Model type

Model scale

Time step

Performance of P routine tested

ADAPT

Fortran

mixed

plot

day

yes

ANIMO

Fortran

mixed

plot

flexible

yes

AnnAGNPS

Fortran

mixed

catchment

day

yes

ANSWERS2000

NA1

mixed

plot, catchment

flexible

no

APEX

Fortran

mixed

plot, catchment

day

yes

CAMEL

Visual Basic

mixed

catchment

day

no

DAYCENT

Fortran

mixed

plot

day

no

DRAINMOD-P Fortran

mixed

plot

flexible (hour or day)

yes

EPIC

Fortran

mixed

plot

day

yes

GLEAMS

Fortran

mixed

plot

day

yes

HGS

Fortran

process

soil profile, plot, catchment

flexible

no

HSPF

Fortran

mixed

catchment

flexible

yes

HYDRUS

NA

process

soil profile, plot, catchment

flexible

yes

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Fortran

mixed

catchment

day

yes

ICECREAMDB

NA

mixed

plot

day

yes

INCA-P

C++

mixed

catchment

day

yes

LASCAM

NA

conceptual catchment

day

yes

MACRO

Fortran

process

soil profile

flexible

yes

PDP

Python

mixed

catchment

day

yes

PHREEQC

C,C++

process

soil profile

second

yes

PLEASE

NA

conceptual plot

day

yes

RZWQM2-P

Fortran

process

flexible

yes

SimplyP

C++

conceptual catchment

day

yes

SWAP

Fortran

process

plot

flexible

no

SWAT

Fortran

mixed

catchment, continent

day

yes

SWIM

NA

mixed

catchment

day

no

1NA

soil profile

means that we were not able to find this information.

2.1 Model overview The models in this review represent a wide range of different approaches, with many similarities and overlaps. In Table 2 we give a short overview of the main objectives of every model as well as the land use forms for which they were primarily developed. However, even those models that were developed explicitly for one ecosystem can often be transferred to another based on the processes included. At the same time, the fact that a model has been developed for a specific ecosystem does not guarantee that it includes all the important processes to simulate P transport there. In order to overcome this confinement, some models offer the possibility to be coupled with other models to complement missing processes. For example, ANIMO does not consider hydrological components, but it can be combined with SWATRE (Belmans et al., 1981) or WATBAL (Berghuijs van Dijk, 1990). Also, PDP is not able to simulate transport of particulate P in surface water and dissolved P in runoff from dry and paddy lands, but Huang et al. (2016a) solved this problem by coupling the model with USLE and INCA-P. PHREEQC is not able to simulate water flow and solute transport on its own, so Mao et al. (2006) coupled it with SEAWAT to close this gap. The resulting model, which is

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Table 2. Overview of the land use for which the models where primarily developed, as well as a short overview of the main application scope. Model

Land use

Scope

ADAPT

agriculture

nutrient and pesticide transport

ANIMO

agriculture

nutrient transport

AnnAGNPS

mixed1

sediment and contaminant transport

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ANSWERS-2000

mixed

APEX

mixed

CAMEL

mixed

evaluation of best management practices on surface runoff and sediment loss routing water, sediment, nutrients and pesticides across complex landscapes studying of land use changes and water quality e.g., simulation of water quality, runoff

DAYCENT

agricultural and forest

generation, plant growth, nutrient cycling,

soils2

erosion, impact of land use, management practices, climate change

DRAINMOD-P

agricultural (and forest)

simulation of P transport

soils

evaluation of effect of various land

EPIC

agriculture

GLEAMS

agriculture

nutrient and pesticide transport

agricultural and forest

simulation of the entire terrestrial portion

soils

of the hydrological cycle

HGS

HSPF

HYDRUS

HYPE

ICECREAM-DB

INCA-P

management strategies on soil erosion

routing water, sediment, nutrients and

mixed

pesticides through complex landscapes

agricultural and forest

routing water, sediment, nutrients and

soils

pesticides through complex landscapes simulation of water flow and transport of

mixed

different substances through the soil

(Swedish) agricultural

simulation of P transport, water discharge

soils

and erosion simulation of P transport, water quality

mixed

and aquatic ecology

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LASCAM

simulation of water quality as well as land

mixed

use and climate changes

agricultural and forest

MACRO

contaminant transport

soils

PDP

lowland polder systems

simulation of P transport simulation of natural or polluted water,

PHREEQC

natural and artificial soils

laboratory experiments, and industrial processes

PLEASE

agriculture

simulation of P transport

RZWQM2-P

agriculture

simulation of P transport

SimplyP

mixed

SWAP

simulation of P transport and suspended sediment

agricultural and forest

simulation of water, solute and heat

soils

transport, as well as plant growth

mixed

simulation of water quality and quantity,

SWAT

impact of land use, management practices, and climate change simulation of water quality and quantity,

SWIM

mixed

impact of land use, management practices, and climate change

1Catchment

scale models are marked as “mixed”; 2for one-dimensional models, land uses are listed separately

2.2 Temporal and spatial scale The spatial and temporal scale has a large impact on the properties and functions of a model, whereby both can be influenced by the model type: while pure mechanistic models are mostly suitable for small spatial scales and rather short periods of time (usually less than a year or even less than a day), more empirical models can be used for annual or even multiyear simulations and at larger spatial scales (Radcliffe et al., 2015). Sharpley et al. (2002) and Haygarth et al. (2005) pointed out, which processes are important for P transport depends on

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Journal Pre-proof the model scale. For example, the representation of detachment, deposition, and resuspension of soil particles differ between plot and catchment scales. On small scales, processes are often described in detail, while on larger scales processes are represented by more simple empirical relations and soils often are grouped in associations. Savenije (2001) describes this as “averaging processes”. Scale dependency is evident not only in the spatial scale, but also in the temporal scale. In particular, the time steps of a model have a great influence on the degree of detail, e.g. a model with a resolution per second requires consideration of completely different processes than a model with daily time steps. The temporal and spatial scales of all 26 models are depicted in Table 1. For this overview, the spatial scale was subdivided into soil profile (one-dimensional), plot (larger areas, but homogeneous weather and soils; equivalent to a ‘field’ in agricultural models), and catchment, with increasing range. Soil profile and plot scaled models both focus on vertical fluxes and therefore often make similar assumptions. While only three of the models in this review are restricted to one-dimensional simulations of soil profiles, nine models are specialized for plot and ten for catchment scale applications. The remaining four models can be used flexibly for different scales. The model SWAP was developed for plot scaled modeling, but via the use of geographical information systems and definition of additional features upscaling to regional scale is possible. Another important factor is the spatial disaggregation, which varies strongly between the models. Catchment scale models use a variety of lateral spatial disaggregation. The Models AnnAGNPS, APEX, HYPE, INCA-P, SWAT, and SWIM split the area into Hydrologic Response Units (HRU), which are combinations of homogeneous land use, management, topographical, and soil characteristics (Arnold et al., 2012). HGS provides several options ranging from simple rectangular domains to irregular domains with complex geometry and layering (Aquanty Inc., 2016). Other models use grid cells (ANSWERS-2000, CAMEL, and HYDRUS), partitioning based on single features like land use (HSPF and PDP), subcatchments (LASCAM), or P content classes (SimplyP). Soil profile and plot scaled models (i.e., ANIMO, DAYCENT, DRAINMOD-P, EPIC, GLEAMS, ICECREAM-DB, MACRO, PHREEQC, PLEASE, RZWQM2-P, and SWAP) do not use lateral discretization. ADAPT is also designed for plot scale applications. However, Gowda et al. (2007) used the concept of HRUs to simulate whole watersheds. In general, plot scale models can also be used for larger areas, as long as they are homogeneous, for example for soil, weather, and management practice. The size of the plot depends on the desired resolution and precision (Gerik et al., 2015). Likewise, the disaggregation with depth differs between the models. For example, INCA-P and SimplyP simulate one soil layer and one deeper mineral soil/groundwater layer. In LASCAM

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3. Phosphorus pools and forms With regard to the P routines, the 26 models reviewed here can be divided into several groups with different degrees of complexity. An often-used approach is the conceptual soil P model of Jones et al (1984a). In this approach, three interconnected inorganic P pools are modeled (labile P, active P and stable P), as well as two organic P pools (fresh organic P, stable organic P). An initial value for labile P is given by the user as an input parameter, and based on this active and stable P are calculated. Furthermore, some models follow similar structural approaches as Jones et al (1984a), although single pools and forms of P deviate. Other models only consider dissolved P and particulate P without further differentiation. And finally there are some models in this review that do not have readily available P routines at all, so for modeling of P transport the user has to parameterize a general solute transport component to represent different P forms. All the models without a readily available P routine (HGS, HYDRUS, MACRO, and SWAP) were used in the past for the simulation of P. The parameterization results mostly in very simple

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Journal Pre-proof P routines, including only basic pools, e.g. dissolved P or total P. It is possible to parameterize SWAP for the simulation of dissolved P, but Kroes et al. (2017) recommend coupling it with ANIMO to simulate P or N processes. To improve the P modeling of HYDRUS, Nahra (2006) coupled HYDRUS-1D with NICA and created a PO4 routine for soil water, but this is not included in the official release of HYDRUS. Although these models without readily available P routine can be used to simulate P transport via appropriate parameterization, the lack of P transformation and reaction processes results in the primary suitability for small periods of time (e.g. individual precipitation events). Still, since this review contains models of different complexity and applicability, we decided to include these models. Except for HGS, the performance for the simulation of P of all these general solute transport models was validated. Some models with P specific turnover routines, i.e. ANSWERS-2000, CAMEL, DAYCENT, and SWIM, miss any published validation with field data. The P routine of Jones et al. (1984a) was originally created for the model EPIC (Williams et al., 1983), but it is also used in ADAPT, AnnAGNPS, ANSWERS-2000, APEX, CAMEL, DRAINMOD-P, GLEAMS, ICECREAM-DB, RZWQM2-P, SWAT, and SWIM. While all of these models’ P routines are based on this foundation, they still comprise different modifications. For example, EPIC contains a constant P sorption parameter for an entire simulation, while AnnAGNPS calculates this parameter daily, based on changing soil properties (Vadas et al., 2013), and SWAT calculates it dynamically at the beginning of each simulation year (Collick et al., 2016). This distinction can lead to very different sizes of the P pools. In DRAINMOD-P, the organic P pools are based on the organic N routine from DRAINMOD-N II (Youssef et al., 2005). The model RZWQM2-P contains an additional routine for calculating the loss of particulate P via surface runoff and tile drainage. There is also a modification for GLEAMS to simulate the transport of particulate P, namely an extension called PARTLE (Shirmohammadi et al., 1998). Therefore, of these models only RZWQM2-P and GLEAMS allow for particulate P movement to be simulated, whereas all other models based on this approach by Jones et al. (1984a) are not capable of doing so (see Table 4). Other models with structurally very similar P routines to Jones et al. (1984a) are INCA-P (Jackson-Blake et al., 2016; Wade et al., 2002) and SimplyP (Jackson-Blake et al., 2017). Both simulate dissolved P, inactive soil P, and labile soil P. Another similar approach can be found in PLEASE (Schoumans et al., 2013; van der Salm et al., 2011), which depicts dissolved inorganic P, adsorbed P, and soluble P. Slightly more complex is the approach of ANIMO (Groenendijk and Kroes, 1999), which simulates in addition to three inorganic P stores (dissolved, adsorbed, and precipitated inorganic P) also three organic P stores (dissolved, stable, and fresh organic P). HYPE includes three immobile P pools (inorganic adsorbed to soil particles, organic with rapid turnover, and organic with slow turnover) and two mobile pools

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Journal Pre-proof (particulate and soluble P). The P routine of HSPF is based on the AGCHEM module (DiazRamirez et al., 2013). Here, P is simulated as sediment-attached, dissolved in surface runoff, and as concentrations in the interflow and groundwater compartments. The P routines of other models are simpler. For example, PDP (Huang et al., 2016b) simulates only dissolved P and particulate P. Likewise, according to Lewis and McGechan (2002), DAYCENT is able to simulate sorbed and labile soil P, but no applications or validations thereof could be found. LASCAM distinguishes only between organic/adsorbed P and soluble P (Viney et al., 2000). PHREEQC (Herrmann et al., 2013; Moharami and Jalali, 2014) takes a very different approach, since it is a hydro-geochemical transport model and therefore depicts the actual chemical compounds. The question of which of these methods produces the best results is not easy to answer, as all methods have advantages and disadvantages. As Qi and Qi (2016) pointed out, a simplified representation (e.g., HYDRUS, MACRO, and SWAP) can lead to less accurate prediction results. On the other hand, a simplified representation can also lead to more accurate prediction results, as improved

performance during calibration can be due to

overfitting rather than improved process representation(e.g. Perrin et al., 2001; Seibert, 2003).

4. Transport components For transport processes, a distinction can be made between dissolved and suspended transport, surface and subsurface transport, and transition between mobile and immobile forms. Not all models include every transport component, due to different spatial foci. PHREEQC is a 1D model of vadose zone transport and therefore lacks surface transport, while conceptual large-scale models like LASCAM simulate only dissolved P and no mobile-immobile transition. Table 3 summarizes which water compartments are included in the models, in order to provide an indicator for possible uses of the models.

Table 3. Overview of important hydrological compartments of the different models. Model ADAPT ANIMO

Matrix

Macropores

Darcy with Dupuitbypass flow Forchheimer assumptions yes (see on bypass flow the right)

AnnAGNPS

no leaching

no

ANSWERS2000

storage routing

no

Surface Infiltration Groundwater Streamflow Water Curve Number, yes yes (Darcy) no Green & Ampt coupling with external hydrological model necessary Curve yes no yes Number Green & yes no yes Ampt

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APEX

storage routing

bypass flow

CAMEL

storage routing

dualpermeability (in aquifer)

yes

Curve Number, Green & Ampt

yes

yes

yes

Green & Ampt

yes (Darcy)

yes

capacity based

no

no

Green & Ampt

yes (Darcy)

only as sink

yes

no

Richards no yes equation Darcy with DRAINMOD Dupuitbypass flow1 yes -P Forchheimer assumptions DAYCENT

Curve Number, Green & Ampt Curve Number

EPIC

storage routing

no

yes

GLEAMS

storage routing

no

yes

HGS

Richards equation

discretely, dualporosity, dualpermeability

yes

Richards equation

yes (variably yes saturated)

HSPF

empirical equation

no

yes

Stanford model

yes (empirical)

yes

HYDRUS

Richards equation

dualporosity, dualpermeability

yes (via Richards extensio equation n)

yes

only as sink

HYPE

storage routing

bypass flow

yes

capacity based

yes

yes

bypass flow

yes

Richards equation

bypass flow

yes

no

yes

MACRO

Richards equation

dualporosity, dualpermeability

no

Richards equation

PDP

no leaching

no

yes

constant infiltration no rate

no

PHREEQC

no matrix flow

dual-porosity no

no

no

no

PLEASE

no leaching

no

yes

NA

yes (empirical)

yes

bypass flow

yes

Green & Ampt

yes (Darcy)

only as sink

bypass flow

yes

unlimited

yes

yes

ICECREAM- Richards DB equation INCA-P LASCAM

RZWQM2-P SimplyP

storage routing storage routing

Richards equation storage routing

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capacity based capacity based

yes (as sink) no

yes (based on storage capacity) yes (empirical) yes (empirical) yes

no yes yes only as sink

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Richards equation

bypass flow2 yes

SWAT

storage routing

bypass flow

yes

SWIM

storage routing

no

yes

Green & Ampt Curve Number, Green & Ampt Curve Number

no

no

yes (empirical)

yes

yes

yes

1The

official release of DRAINMOD is not able to simulate macropores, but the derivate DRAINMOD-P contains a bypass routine; 2SWAP simulates no interaction between matrix and macropores, but the macropores reach to different depths and therefore can release water and nutrients into the matrix. 4.1 Surface transport Many models are capable of simulating the transport of P at the soil surface. As shown in Table 4, this can take place in various ways. While some models only represent the transport of dissolved P, other models simulate both the surface transport of suspended particulate P and dissolved P. Different mechanisms can be used for different transport routes. Dissolved P, for example, can either diffuse from soil solution of the upper soil layer, or be released from sorption as a function of the extractability of P in the near-surface soil (Sharpley et al., 2002). Suspended P is mostly simulated coupled with erosion. Most models simulate erosion using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) (Wischmeier and Smith, 1978) or some modification of this, like the modified USLE (MUSLE) (Williams, 1975) or the revised USLE (RUSLE) (Renard et al., 1991). USLE is a simple empirical approach for predicting long-term average annual soil loss. It is based on various factors, like rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, topography, and cropping management. A more complex technique is the process-oriented modeling of erosion, where detachment, transport, and deposition of sediment are simulated discretely (Wolfe, 2007). However, this technique is rarely used. Table 4 shows how the different models simulate erosion as well as surface transport of P. Models that are able to simulate surface transport of both dissolved and particulate P are ADAPT, Answers-2000, APEX, CAMEL, DAYCENT, EPIC, GLEAMS, HSPF, ICECREAM-DB, INCA-P, LASCAM, RZWQM2-P, SimplyP, SWAT, and SWIM. Many of these models are not able to simulate the transport of particulate P through the soil. Still, to represent the transport at the surface, this is circumvented by coupling the surface transport of P via a transport factor to the erosion of sediments. From all the models in this review, many models (e.g. ADAPT, AnnAGNPS, CAMEL, EPIC, LASCAM, and SWAT) calculate surface transport of dissolved P based on the concentration of labile P in the top soil layer, runoff volume, and an extraction coefficient. In PLEASE, P loads from a field to surface waters are estimated based on a function of depth and the distribution

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Journal Pre-proof of total annual horizontal water flux (Schoumans et al., 2013). For the transport of particulate P, ICECREAM-DB assumes the same distribution between the P pools in the eroded material as in the bulk soil (Yli-Halla et al., 2005). On the contrary, particulate P transport in overland flow is often simulated by a logarithmic relationship between P enrichment ratio and sediment discharge (Menzel, 1980). This is in accordance with the fact that eroded P is preferentially attached to the finer sediment particles, which tend to be first eroded (Viney et al., 2000). Therefore, eroded particulate material is mostly enriched with P compared to surface soil (Sharpley et al., 2002). For example, in LASCAM P concentrations decrease as the mass of eroded material increases. Similar enrichment ratios are also used for example in ADAPT and GLEAMS.

4.2 Subsurface transport Different approaches exist to simulate the infiltration and transport of water and solutes in soils. Infiltration is very often calculated using a conceptual curve number approach (NRCS, 2004) or the Green and Ampt equation. Alternatively, a constant infiltration rate can be assumed, or infiltration can be capacity based. Approaches that are more complex calculate infiltration based on the hydraulic gradient (Richards equation). Table 3 shows how this is implemented in the different models. For simulating water transport through soils, a commonly used conceptual approach is a storage routing representation. This approach (often described as “tipping bucket”) always fills one storage until field capacity is reached, before the excess water is routed to the next layer. This simple approach is used in most conceptual models, but also in many models classified as mixed type. Still, it has several drawbacks, e.g. it is not able to simulate upward flow. Therefore, they have certain disadvantages compared to physical-based approaches, for example when simulating shallow water table soils. For process-based models, the subsurface water flow and solute transport can, according to the classification of Šimůnek et al. (2003), be grouped in single-porosity, dual-porosity and dual-permeability approaches. The different concepts are shown in Figure 1. Single porosity approaches only simulate water flow and solute transport through the soil matrix. A variation of this approach is supplemented by a fast bypass flow component (Figure 1b). Here, the bypassed water and solutes are directly routed to the groundwater or catchment outlet, so there is no interaction between the slow and the fast water components. This differs in dual-porosity (Figure 1c) and dual-permeability (Figure 1d) models, where it is assumed that the porous medium consists of two interacting regions. One region represents the macropores, while the other comprises the micropores inside the matrix. In dual-porosity models, water in the matrix is stagnant, whereas dual-permeability

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Figure 1. Concepts of different water flow and solute transport approaches, taken from Šimůnek et al. (2009) and edited.

4.2.1 Matrix transport In single-porosity models (Figure 1a), saturated water flow is mainly simulated via storage routing or the Darcy equation (particularly for groundwater flow), whereas for unsaturated conditions the Richards equation is the most used equation. Single-porosity models are ANSWERS-2000, DAYCENT, EPIC, GLEAMS, HSPF, LASCAM, PDP, PLEASE, and SWIM (see Table 3). Of these models, ANSWERS-2000, EPIC, GLEAMS, LASCAM, and SWIM use the storage routing approach, while DAYCENT represents matrix transport using the Richards equation. PDP does not simulate the soil divided into soil layers, as it was developed specifically for polder systems. Instead, it describes the water balance in four land-use areas, namely residential area, surface water area, paddy and dry lands, without vertical transport of water and P through the soil. PLEASE also does not simulate the vertical transport of water and solutes, since it focuses on the total amount of leached P instead of its transport routes. Therefore, the soil is not divided in different layers, but the loss of P is calculated based on empirical assumptions, i.e. the concentration of P and the total groundwater outflow as a function of depth. In this model, only horizontal runoff is calculated. Matrix flow is also not included in the models AnnAGNPS and PHREEQC. Since PHREEQC is a dual-porosity model, water and solutes in the matrix are stagnant and only transported via macropores. AnnAGNPS focusses on surface runoff and does not consider vertical leachate. However, lateral

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Journal Pre-proof subsurface flow is calculated based on Darcy’s equation and assumed homogeneous through the entire soil profile (Bingner et al., 2015). The remaining models all have a second, faster transport route (see section 4.2.2). Still, their matrix transport components are mostly similar to single-porosity approaches, namely six models (i.e., APEX, CAMEL, HYPE, INCA-P, SimplyP, and SWAT) with storage routing and six models (HGS, HYDRUS, ICECREAM-DB, MACRO, RZWQM2-P, and SWAP) using the Richards equation. DRAINMOD-P uses the Darcy equation with Dupuit-Forchheimer assumptions. This approximation assumes that flow lines are parallel to the impermeable sublayer and thus that lateral flow processes can be separated from vertical processes. This is reasonable when the rate of subsurface flow is low (Clark et al., 2015a; Kampf and Burges, 2007). The model ADAPT is unable to simulate unsaturated water transport, but (since its hydrologic component is based on DRAINMOD) vertical transport through the matrix is simulated using the Darcy equation. ANIMO has to be coupled with another model to represent hydrological processes, since the model itself is not capable of simulating water transport components. The transport of solutes through the matrix differs little between the models. Mostly it is calculated by convection-diffusion equations (ANIMO, DRAINMOD-P, GLEAMS, HGS, HYDRUS, ICECREAM-DB, MACRO, and SWAP). Kroes et al. (2017) recommends combining SWAP with ANIMO for a more realistic simulation of P transport. In HSPF, subsurface transport of dissolved P is simulated by adjusting the ratio of surface to subsurface total P (Radcliffe et al., 2015). For many of the models, we were not able to find published information on the exact mechanisms of solute transport. However, apparently most models are able to simulate transport via water movement. Contrary, the transport of particulate P is restricted to macropores, so none of the single-porosity models is able to simulate this process explicitly.

4.2.2 Macropore transport Macropore transport is usually much faster than transport via matrix. In many models (i.e., ADAPT, ANIMO, APEX, DRAINMOD-P, HYPE, ICECREAM-DB, INCA-P, RZWQM2-P, SimplyP, SWAP, and SWAT) it is simply represented as an additional fast bypass component. In SimplyP this quick flow component is simplified even more, since it includes not only macropore flow, but also saturation excess overland flow, tile drainage, and runoff from impervious surfaces (Jackson-Blake et al., 2017). Many soils, especially those of forests, grasslands, and no-tillage agriculture, usually contain macropores. Hence, transport through PFPs as well as interactions between PFPs and the matrix are important for P translocation

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Journal Pre-proof (Bogner et al., 2012; Bundt et al., 2001; Julich et al., 2016). As these interactions cannot be represented by bypass flow, this transport route is mainly of interest for the modeling of agricultural soils with drainages, while dual-porosity and dual-permeability approaches are representations of macroporous soils that are more realistic. According to Qi and Qi (2016), macropore flow in dual-permeability models is mostly represented either by Richards equation, kinematic wave approach, or gravitational flow using Poiseuille’s law to calculate water infiltration into macropores. While macropore flow based on the Richards equation considers both gravitational flow and capillary-driven flow, the kinematic wave equation only includes the vertical gravity flow and ignores capillary. Since Poiseuille’s law premises that the macropores are cylindrical, this approach is less accurate when the pores deviate from this assumption (Šimůnek et al., 2012). Moreover, Poiseuille’s law assumes saturated conditions, which only rarely applies to macropores (Jarvis, 2007). Of all the models presented in this review, only five models contain dual-porosity or dualpermeability representations, namely CAMEL, HGS, HYDRUS, MACRO, and PHREEQC. While PHREEQC is restricted to dual-porosity, the models HGS, HYDRUS, and MACRO are able to simulate both dual-porosity and dual-permeability systems. CAMEL takes a special position because the unsaturated soil is simulated simply as a single porosity system, but it uses a dual permeability approach for the saturated aquifer. This groundwater flow is simulated via Darcian flow with two different hydraulic conductivities. The dual-permeability models HGS and HYDRUS use the Richards equation for both matrix and macropore water flow. In MACRO, water transport through macropores is simulated via kinematic wave approach. Since PHREEQC needs to be coupled with another model to simulate water flow, it is not possible to specify the mechanism. For example, Wissmeier and Barry (2010) created an extension for unsaturated flow in PHREEQC, which enables the use of the Richards equation. Generally, existing models with a second flow component follow various approaches for the representation of solute and particle transport through macropores and how the exchange between matrix and macropores is modeled (Djabelkhir et al., 2017; Šimůnek et al., 2003). For example, in HYDRUS this is solved similar to most single-porosity approaches: solute transport is calculated via convection-diffusion type equations (Gerke and van Genuchten, 1993). This is true for both fracture and matrix regions, but with different parameter values assigned (Šimůnek et al., 2003). In HYDRUS, the exchange of water between matrix and macropores is driven by the gradient of pressure heads. In MACRO, the exchange of water from macropores to micropores is calculated using a mass transfer expression, while the transport of solutes is calculated neglecting dispersion, since advection is assumed to dominate. In PHREEQC, various mechanisms are available: advective transport, advective-dispersion transport (1D), and diffuse transport (2D and 3D).

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Journal Pre-proof The model SWAT is only capable of simulating bypass flow and lacks a P transport component for the macropore pathways, which is why it is not applicable for the physically correct simulation of P transport processes in macroporous soils (Radcliffe et al., 2015). In RZWQM2-P, the water flux through macropores is simulated via Poiseuille’s law, which is based on gravitational flow. Dissolved reactive P and particulate P are directly routed from the first soil layer to the groundwater without interaction with the matrix (Sadhukhan and Qi, 2018). In SWAP, water can be infiltrated into macropores at the soil surface and then be transported into deeper soil layers. The model distinguishes between continuous, horizontal interconnected macropores, and discontinuous macropores ending at different depths, so water and nutrients can be transported to various soil layers. Additionally, the macropores are divided into static and dynamic (Kroes et al., 2017). For APEX, Ford et al. (2017) recently developed a new modification to implement macropores. They distinguish between matrixexcess macropores and matrix-desiccation macropores. Matrix-excess macropores appear when saturation exceeds the ‘water-entry’ pressure of the matrix, while matrix-desiccation macropores occur at low moisture conditions and form a draught crack network. The latter is modeled as a function of clay content and potential evapotranspiration demand deficiency. In this approach, macropore flow of dissolved P is assumed to equilibrate with the surface soil, so P is partitioned between adsorption on the soil surface and transportation through the macropores by using the Langmuir isotherm. Water transport takes place in the form of a bypass flow to the bottom soil layer, and when its capacity is exceeded, it is moved upwards to the next unsaturated layer.

4.2.3 Mobile-immobile transition In dual-porosity models, the exchange of P and solutes between macropores and matrix is typically associated with mobilization and immobilization processes. Aside from these processes, especially single-porosity models also often simulate immobilization of P via adsorption. Immobilized P is generally not congruent with particulate P, but in some model descriptions, these two terms are used synonymous: In most models that are able to simulate particulate P, it is considered as immobile, or it can only be transported by surface erosion. Jones et al. (1984a) created the concept of stable vs. dissolved P for EPIC and this has been used in all models building on EPICs P concept (see section 3). Here stable P is only transported by surface erosion and is therefore excluded from leaching. The immobilization of P in many other models works in similar ways. Heathwaite (2003) and Vadas et al. (2013) criticize this, because this P routine has seen very limited updates. Especially movement of particulate P within the soil is therefore missing in most models. Only the models GLEAMS

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4.3 Plant P uptake and removal An important difference between arable land and forests is the annual harvesting of crops from fields, while forest trees are harvested irregularly or not at all. In addition, harvest and other management actions (such as thinning) often focus on selected trees, without removing the entire stand. This leads to differences in nutrient circulation. Examples of models that can simulate within-year variations in both annual and perennial plant P uptake are EPIC, INCA-P, SWAP, SWAT, and SWIM. In SWAP, the disparity between annual and permanent affects not

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Journal Pre-proof only plant growth, but also rainfall interception: for agricultural crops, infiltration is calculated using the Hoyninger-Braden equation, whereas for forests the Gash equation is used (Kroes et al., 2017). Models that appear to represent only annual crops are for example AnnAGNPS and RZWQM2-P. In both models, crop properties such as cultivating and harvest time, tillage, and fertilization need to be given as inputs. Another important factor is the method of calculation of plant P uptake. It can be divided into different approaches, namely supply-driven and demand-driven plant uptake, as well as combinations of both. While supply-driven approaches simulate P uptake by plants based on the P concentrations in soils, demand-driven plant uptake is mainly based on the demand of the plants directly. An example of demand-driven P uptake can be found in GLEAMS (Knisel and Davis, 2000). The uptake of labile P is estimated for each layer where transpiration occurs, with the total uptake from all layers equal to the plant P demand. The plant P demand is a function of the Optimum Leaf Area Index, which is tabulated for a large number of crops over a growing season. This approach is based on the formulation of the EPIC model, where the potential plant uptake of labile P is simulated as a linear function up to a user-specified critical concentration (Jones et al., 1984a). A similar approach was chosen in LASCAM, where plant P uptake depends on the rate of canopy biomass accumulation (instead of the Optimum Leaf Area Index), so that it varies seasonally (Viney et al., 2000). In DAYCENT, a combination of demand-driven and supply-driven P uptake is implemented. Plant P uptake is controlled by the size of the labile P pool, whereas in turn the labile P pool varies with the size of the mineral N pool. Additionally, the uptake of labile P is constrained by upper and lower limits for nutrient content in the shoots and roots, which in turn are considered as a function of plant biomass (Lewis and McGechan, 2002). In APEX, P uptake is also simulated as a combination of demand- and supply-driven, with the root weight as an confinement factor of the supply (Williams et al., 2015). Other models that simulate plant P uptake represented by a combination of both approaches are, for example, INCA-P (Jackson-Blake et al., 2016), RZWQM2-P (Sadhukhan and Qi, 2018), and DRAINMOD-P (Askar, 2019). HYDRUS can simulate chemical uptake of plants both passively and actively. Passive uptake is based on the Feddes equation and P in soil solution, while active uptake is based on the MichaelisMenten equation (Qi and Qi, 2016). In MACRO, plant chemical uptake is included via a source/sink term in the solute transport equation (Qi and Qi, 2016). For many models, it was not possible to find out how they simulate plant uptake exactly (see Table 4), but it is likely that in most cases it is implemented very simplistically, for example as a simple demand-driven uptake, based on C:N:P ratios in the plants.

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Surface processes Plant uptake

Dissolved P

Particulate P

ADAPT

yes

immobile2

demanddriven

USLE

suspended & dissolved

ANIMO

yes

immobile

yes1

no

dissolved

AnnAGNPS

yes

immobile

demanddriven

RUSLE, HUSLE

Answers2000

yes

immobile

demand- and empirical supplyfunction driven

suspended & dissolved

APEX

yes

immobile

demand- and USLE, MUSLE, supplyRUSLE driven

suspended & dissolved

CAMEL

yes

immobile

demand- and supplyyes1 driven

suspended & dissolved

DAYCENT

yes

immobile

demand- and supplyyes driven

suspended & dissolved

DRAINMODyes P

mobile3

yes

RUSLE

suspended & dissolved

EPIC

yes

immobile

demanddriven

USLE, MUSLE, RUSLE

suspended & dissolved

GLEAMS

yes

PARTLE

demanddriven

MUSLE

suspended & dissolved

HGS

no

no

yes

no

no (transport of solutes)

HSPF

yes

immobile

yes

process-based

suspended & dissolved

HYDRUS

no

no

demand- and supplyno driven

HYPE

yes

mobile

yes

Erosion

yes

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dissolved

no

suspended & dissolved

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immobile

yes

INCA-P

mobile

demand- and supplyprocess-based driven

suspended & dissolved suspended & dissolved

yes

MUSLE

suspended & dissolved

LASCAM

yes

immobile

based on canopy based on biomass surface runoff accumulation

MACRO

no

no

empirical sink term

detachment of soil particles from surface

PDP

yes

mobile

yes

USLE

suspended & dissolved

PHREEQC

yes

NA

no

no

no

PLEASE

yes

immobile

no

no

no

mobile

demand- and based on supplyGLEAMS driven (MUSLE)

based on USLE suspended & and empirical dissolved relationship with streamflow

RZWQM2-P yes

no (transport of solutes & colloids)

suspended & dissolved

SimplyP

yes

mobile

annually constant input value

SWAP

no

no

fix user input

only surface runoff

SWAT

yes

immobile

demanddriven

MUSLE

suspended & dissolved

SWIM

yes

immobile

demanddriven

MUSLE

suspended & dissolved

dissolved

1In

the columns “Plant uptake” and “Erosion” a simple “yes” indicates that the processes are included, but we found no information on the exact processes; 2“mobile” signifies that the movement of particulate P through the soil is somehow included, i.e. via a bypass component, dual-porosity, or dual-permeability; 3“immobile” means that particulate P can be simulated, but only as an immobile sink.

5. Future developments in environmental process-based P modeling 5.1 General suggestions for improvements As shown in this review, there are a number of environmental models with P routines. Depending on the focus of the models, they show significant differences. In order to provide

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Journal Pre-proof an overview of the existing models, we created a decision tree (see Figure 2). There we present the different transport routes of the individual models (single porosity, dual-porosity, and dual-permeability) as well as the specific P forms that are included. The color code of the figure follows the traffic light principle, i.e. green boxes represent most accurate process representation (e.g., dual permeability and transport of dissolved and particulate P), orange boxes indicate less exact model structures (e.g., dual porosity and dissolved P transport with immobile particulate P component), and red boxes show the simplest representations (no macropores, no functioning P routine). However, this does not mean that the simpler models are generally unsuitable for calculating P fluxes through different ecosystems. Depending on the question and the complexity required, the models can still be very useful. It is noticeable that there is no model for which all processes are represented most accurately (green) to simulate P transport through forest soils. Many models simulate P transport based on a more than 30 years old approach by Jones et al. (1984a), and we could not find many improvements over the last decades in P modeling. Often, there is no reason against this established method, but – depending on the research question – the lack of a mobile particulate P component can be a major deficit. According to Heathwaite (2003) and Vadas et al. (2013), the focus on the development of data-intensive complex models instead of more generic models is a main reason for current deficits in modeling. In line with this, Radcliffe et al. (2015) recommend to revise P modeling and to develop new, improved routines. Considering our focus of interest, this might be especially the transport of particulate P, which is only implemented in very few models. Additionally, model performance needs to be tested specifically for P to make sure that simulation results of soil P dynamics are reliable. This is a flaw of many existing models, since simulated soil P dynamics are rarely presented. Besides this critique of the P routines and the often-found lack of dual-permeability approaches, there are many other potentially important processes, which might be worth considering for model development, for example: -

P uptake by trees and other plants might deviate from P uptake by crops

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Surface transport, groundwater, and stream components are usually important components

-

Due to stem flow, nutrient inputs might be concentrated locally (Levia and Frost, 2003)

-

Atmospheric particulate deposition might be increased due to interception (Lequy et al., 2014).

Some of the named models include most of the processes we consider important. The newly improved RZWQM2-P deserves particular mention here, as it contains a complex P routine including mobile particulate P, as well as a fast bypass component (but no dual-permeability).

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Journal Pre-proof Still, the possibility to up- and downscale the model specific to the current research question would be an advantage. This is very hard to realize, since a change of scale results in a shift in the important processes. Moreover, such a high flexibility in the model structure might lead to very complex models with many parameters. For different reasons, a large number of parameters can increase the inaccuracy of a model. For example, often parameters have no physical basis, they might be impossible to measure in the field (Djabelkhir et al., 2017), or measured parameters can be scale-dependent and therefore not representative. Radcliffe et al. (2015) and Nelson and Parsons (2006) also pointed out that there is generally a lack of guidance on how to obtain independent values for additional parameters. In overparameterized models the values of individual parameters cannot be unequivocally identified by the data (so called “equifinality”, see Beven and Freer, 2001), so prediction uncertainty might increase. Moreover, small inaccuracies of individual parameters can lead to very large total errors. This is for example criticized by Buytaert et al. (2008) as an “over-complexity” of most models. They propose a number of directives that should be followed when developing new models: the model code should be fully accessible, modular, and portable. This way, the user is enabled to use a model in a highly flexible manner with improved control over the modeling assumptions. For example, modularity allows the user to choose whether particular processes should be represented either by mechanistic equations or by empirical relations. It also simplifies the addition of new independent routines to represent additional processes. This way, in modular and accessible approaches the spatial discretization and the temporal disaggregation can be adjusted more easily. All these suggestions are in accordance with the postulation of Clark et al. (2011) for the development of modular frameworks. Modeling frameworks are toolboxes that provide a variety of different processes, which can be assembled into a model by a user. The resulting model can thus be tailored to specific tasks. Although the compatibility of the individual process representations can be problematic, this enables a large number of different models to be created without high programming effort. Moreover, modeling frameworks are suitable for testing of multiple working hypotheses. Such an approach would be of great advantage for modeling P dynamics, as the comparison of different hypotheses would allow testing which processes are actually important. This way it could be analyzed which macropore transport component is sufficient (fast bypass, dualporosity, or dual-permeability), or to what extent the included process representations depend on the spatial and temporal scale. Existing modeling frameworks are, for example, the Catchment Modelling Framework (CMF) (Kraft et al., 2011), SUMMA (Clark et al., 2015a, 2015b), Raven (Craig and the Raven Development Team, 2019), and the more generic Mobius (Norling, 2019). Unfortunately, until now, no existing hydro-biogeochemical modeling framework is able to simulate P transport through soils.

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Figure 2. Decision tree, which shows the most important features of all P models. The split on the first level differentiates models with and without

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option on how a model could be designed that allows the user to test and compare different

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hypotheses. With regard to the results of this review, the presented blueprint could be used to

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examine whether an explicit representation of macropores can improve modeling P dynamics

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in different soils and on different scales. Additionally, different P routines could be compared

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without other factors being modified. For this purpose, a model should contain only the most

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important processes to simulate the transport of P in different environments, i.e. arable land,

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grassland, and forests. Nevertheless, in order to be able to test hypotheses for different

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landscapes and scales, a large number of processes must be representable:

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number) and percolation (e.g., Richards equation, storage routing), or optional features

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like snow storage.

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and explicit macropore transport (Figure 3) and, as a more simplified alternative, direct

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infiltration into deeper layers via macropores. The horizontal transport via macropores

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to the stream (Savenije, 2018) should also be included as an optional feature.

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for example via Darcy, Richards, or kinematic wave equation, would allow for the

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P. As depicted in Figure 3 (bottom), we differentiate between the transport of P through

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the soil matrix and – if simulated explicitly – macropores. While processes in the matrix

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between dissolved and particulate P will be sufficient. These pools will be in equilibrium

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with the five pools in the soil matrix. As an alternative approach, a highly simplified P

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routine could be integrated, which only distinguishes between dissolved and particulate

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P in both matrix and macropores.

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modeling framework. Since the Catchment Modeling Framework (CMF) (Kraft et al., 2011)

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transport, this framework is ideal for implementing a P routine.

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to be of use for even more tasks. For example, it could be possible to couple the P routines

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with the C and N cycles, or to calculate the effect of nutrient states on the net primary

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productivity. An extension to weathering processes is also possible. The accessibility and

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modularity of modeling frameworks like CMF would allow such diverse approaches to be

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realized. Therefore, while the blueprint presented here is certainly not a universally valid model

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Figure 3. Top: Blueprint of a P model with relevant hydrological storages and processes. Dark

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Blueprint for relevant P routines with P pools and transitions in the soil matrix based on Jones

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et al. (1984a) (left) and within macropores (right). Orange boxes indicate which P pools in the

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matrix are in equilibrium with particulate P in the macropores, while the yellow boxes show

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which pools are in equilibrium with dissolved P.

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We reviewed 26 models that are able to simulate P transport through the soil. Still, their foci

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are very diverse, and therefore the representation of processes varies greatly. Most of the

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models were originally created for the simulation of processes in agricultural soils. While some

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of these models were extended for other ecosystems, it is likely that processes relevant in non-

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agricultural environments are not well represented. These include, for example, the uptake of

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P by plants other than crops, or the transport through PFPs. Moreover, while all models in this

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review are able to simulate some sort of P transport and turnover, they have not necessarily

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been established for this purpose. For this reason, the P routines of many models have only

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been tested in very limited experiments or not been tested at all. Only PLEASE, INCA-P,

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SimplyP and PDP focus especially on the simulation of P leaching from soils. Furthermore, the

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movement ‘through-the-soil’ of particulate P is an important aspect of P leaching (Julich et al.,

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2016), yet this process is only represented in seven of 26 models. In all these models, the

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transport is represented by a fast bypass component. In order to be able to represent this

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transport process more realistically, the simulation of a dual-permeability system could be

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appropriate. Since no model fulfils all hypothesized demands, we developed a blueprint of a

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modular model for the simulation of P leaching through different soils. Especially when it is

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implemented as part of a modular hydrological framework, this approach could help to

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compare different hypotheses, e.g. under which circumstances the explicit representation of a

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dual-permeability system is appropriate. It could also be used for further developments in

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modeling of P transport.

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towards the use of modeling frameworks is necessary. By enabling multiple hypothesis testing,

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the models to different conditions (e.g., various land use forms) should be given greater

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consideration. For this purpose, the agreement on well-established methods might be

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necessary, also in the generation of experimental data. Only when sampling is comparable

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(e.g., comparable depth, consideration of macropores, or same analysis methods for P) can

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the data be used to develop comparable models, which are of interest for more than an

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individual case study. If these suggestions are considered, we assume that an improvement

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of the modeling of P is possible.

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This project was carried out in the frame of the priority program 1685 “Ecosystem Nutrition:

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Forest Strategies for limited Phosphorus Resources” funded by the DFG, subproject

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“Quantification, modeling, and regionalization of seepage losses of phosphorus from forest

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Model reference

Reference for P routine testing

ADAPT

Gowda et al. (2012)

Dalzell et al. (2004)

ANIMO

Groenendijk and Kroes (1999), Kroes and Roelsma (1998)

van der Salm and Schoumans (2000)

AnnAGNPS

Bingner et al. (2015), Yuan et al. (2005)

Pease et al. (2010), Yuan et al. (2005)

ANSWERS2000

Bouraoui and Dillaha (2000, 1996) NA1

APEX

Plotkin et al. (2013), Steglich et al. Bhandari et al. (2016), Francesconi et (2016) al. (2016), Saleh et al. (2001)

CAMEL

Koo et al. (2005, 2004)

NA

DAYCENT

Parton et al. (1998)

NA

DRAINMOD-P

Deal et al. (1986), Tian et al. (2012), Askar (2019)

Askar (2019)

EPIC

Jones et al. (1984a), Sharpley and Della Peruta et al. (2014), Jones et al. Williams (1990) (1984b), Richardson and King (1995)

GLEAMS

Leonard et al. (1987)

Knisel and Turtola (2000)

HGS

Brunner and Simmons (2012)

NA

HSPF

Bicknell et al. (1996), Grimsrud et al. (1982), Johanson et al. (1980)

Ribarova et al. (2008)

HYDRUS

Agah et al. (2016), Šimůnek et al. (2008)

Agah et al. (2016), Freiberger et al. (2013), Hassan et al. (2010), Naseri et al. (2011)

HYPE

Lindström et al. (2010)

Jiang and Rode (2012), Pers et al. (2016)

ICECREAMDB

Larsson et al. (2007)

Bärlund et al. (2008), Larsson et al. (2007), Liu et al. (2012)

INCA-P

Jackson-Blake et al. (2016), Wade Jackson-Blake et al. (2017, 2016) et al. (2002)

LASCAM

Viney et al. (2000)

Viney and Sivapalan (2001), Zammit et al. (2005)

MACRO

Jarvis (1991, 1995), McGechan et al. (2002)

McGechan (2003), McGechan et al. (2002)

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Huang et al. (2016b)

Huang et al. (2016a)

PHREEQC

Parkhurst and Appelo (2013, 1999)

Herrmann et al. (2013), Moharami and Jalali (2014)

PLEASE

Schoumans et al. (2013)

Schoumans et al. (2013), van der Salm et al. (2011)

RZWQM2-P

Ma et al. (2012), Sadhukhan and Qi (2018)

Sadhukhan et al. (2019a, 2019b)

SimplyP

Jackson-Blake et al. (2017)

Jackson-Blake et al. (2017)

SWAP

Gusev and Nasonova (1998), Kroes et al. (2017)

NA

SWAT

Arnold et al. (2012, 1998)

Grizzetti et al. (2003), Vadas and White (2010)

SWIM

Krysanova et al. (2005)

NA

1NA

means that we were not able to find this information.

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