Nitrate flux in the Mississippi River

Gregory F. McIsaac (), Mark B. David, George Z. Gertner and Donald A. Goolsby
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Gregory F. McIsaac: University of Illinois
Mark B. David: University of Illinois
George Z. Gertner: University of Illinois
Donald A. Goolsby: US Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center

Nature, 2001, vol. 414, issue 6860, 166-167

Abstract: Abstract Increased delivery of biologically available nitrogen to estuaries and coastal oceans in recent decades has been linked to eutrophication and seasonal hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico1,2 and elsewhere3,4. We have developed a model that accounts for 95% of annual variation in delivery of nitrate to the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River in 1960–98. Retrospective analysis indicates that this nitrate flux could have been reduced by 33% if the use of nitrogen-containing fertilizer in the Mississippi River basin had been cut by 12%.

Date: 2001
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