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The major inorganic nutrients entering wetlands are nitrogen and phosphorus. In the wetland ... them back in the sediment when they die and settle on the bottom. The cycle breaks when nutrients are ...
It identified an "anthropogenic nitrogen pump," which changes the phosphorus cycle and therefore likely coastal biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. In a balanced ecosystem, microalgae ...
In 1934, Alfred Redfield discovered that the ratio of carbon to nitrogen to phosphorus is a nearly constant ... in understanding marine biogeochemical cycles, but, 80 years later, subtle ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Michigan is stepping up efforts to analyze the flow of harmful nutrients into the Western Basin of Lake Erie, which is plagued each year by toxic algal blooms largely attributed to ...