Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3121-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3121-2018
Research article
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24 May 2018
Research article |  | 24 May 2018

N and P as ultimate and proximate limiting nutrients in the northern Gulf of Mexico: implications for hypoxia reduction strategies

Katja Fennel and Arnaud Laurent

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Increasing human-derived nutrient inputs to coastal oceans lead to spreading dead zones around the world. Here a biogeochemical model for the northern Gulf of Mexico, where nutrients from the Mississippi River create the largest dead zone in North American coastal waters, is used for the first time to show the effects of single and dual nutrient reductions of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). Significant reductions in N or N&P load would be required to significantly reduce hypoxia in this system.
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