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Fast Fact Library

The Landscape Performance Series Fast Fact Library is a searchable collection of landscape benefits derived from published research. Each includes a citation and links to the full article when available.

This resource is intended to showcase landscape’s multiple and sometimes surprising environmental, economic and social benefits and to help you make the case for sustainable landscape solutions in your community, with your clients, or on Capitol Hill.

Know of additional research that would make a compelling Fast Fact? Help build the database by sending your suggestions to lps@lafoundation.org.

Benefits
Stormwater management
Water quality
Rain gardens and bioswales remove nitrogen through plant uptake, denitrification, adsorption, long-term storage in soil organic matter, and immobilization. The performance of bioretention facilities can be improved by increasing detention time, strategically applying low nitrogen organic matter amendments to induce anaerobic conditions, and increasing the vegetation with a focus on plants with deep roots.
Cole Ekberg, Marci L., Collins, Kelly A., Grimm, Nancy B., Jontos, Robert J., Kaushal, Sujay S., Lawrence, Timothy J., Newcomer, Tamara A., Stander, Emilie K., (2010). Opportunities and challenges for managing nitrogen in urban stormwater: A review and synthesis. Ecological Engineering, 36, 1507-1519.
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