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Articles | Volume 18, issue 19
Articles | Volume 18, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5327-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5327-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 19
Research article
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01 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 01 Oct 2021

Riverine nitrogen supply to the global ocean and its limited impact on global marine primary production: a feedback study using an Earth system model

Miriam Tivig, David P. Keller, and Andreas Oschlies

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Nitrogen is one of the most important elements for life in the ocean. A major source is the riverine discharge of dissolved nitrogen. While global models often omit rivers as a nutrient source, we included nitrogen from rivers in our Earth system model and found that additional nitrogen affected marine biology not only locally but also in regions far off the coast. Depending on regional conditions, primary production was enhanced or even decreased due to internal feedbacks in the nitrogen cycle.
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