Articles | Volume 12, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5365-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5365-2015
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17 Sep 2015
Peer-reviewed comment |  | 17 Sep 2015

Comment on "Solute-specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in streams" by Hall et al. (2013)

R. González-Pinzón, J. Mortensen, and D. Van Horn

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Hall et al. (2013) presented a synthesis of 969 nutrient tracer experiments and used a scaling method to test the hypothesis that nutrient demand is constant with increasing stream size. In this comment we present a reanalysis of a subset of the data used by Hall et al. (2013) and propose that their correlations between nutrient uptake lengths and specific discharge are inadvertently spurious. Therefore, the conclusions derived from such correlations are debatable.
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