Study on phosphorus loss and influencing factors in the water source area

Maintaining drinking water security is a global issue, and phosphorus is a limiting factor affecting drinking water quality. Hence, this study took Fushi Reservoir as a test area, and set up field runoff observation plots around the reservoir catchment, which is covered by moso bamboo stands. Through field observation, the vertical variation of phosphorus loss in different stands of moso bamboo was initially studied. The results showed that: (1) For the vertical dimensions (atmospheric rainfall, stemflow, throughfall, surface runoff) from high to low, the loss of total phosphorus (TP) increased, and the proportion of dissolved phosphorus increased from 29.29% (atmospheric rainfall) to 62.76% (surface runoff). (2) Different rainfall factors had various impacts on phosphorus loss at the different vertical levels. The accumulation of rainfall had the greatest impact on surface runoff TP loss, with the correlation coefficient reaching 0.994 (P