Can algal uptake stop NO3− pollution?

Helen M. Baulch (), Emily H. Stanley and Emily S. Bernhardt
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Helen M. Baulch: Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin
Emily H. Stanley: Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin
Emily S. Bernhardt: Duke University

Nature, 2011, vol. 477, issue 7366, E3-E3

Abstract: Abstract Arising from Cardinale, B. J. Nature 472, 86–89 (2011)10.1038/nature09904 The influence of biodiversity on ecosystem function has been of interest to community ecologists for decades. Recently, Cardinale1 reported that biodiversity affects nitrate (NO3−) uptake in algal communities and that, as a result, biodiversity may help mitigate nutrient pollution. Although Cardinale’s conclusions about niche partitioning are interesting (figure 2 in ref. 1), his extension of these findings to problems of nutrient pollution is premature. Algal uptake is only a short-term nitrogen sink; control of NO3− pollution requires long-term solutions.

Date: 2011
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