The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

Watershed and global-scale nitrogen (N) budgets indicate that the majority of the N surplus in anthropogenic landscapes does not reach the coastal oceans. While there is general consensus that this ‘missing’ N either exits the landscape via denitrification or is retained within watersheds as nitrate...

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Main Authors: K J Van Meter, N B Basu, J J Veenstra, C L Burras
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/035014