Differences in phosphorus and nitrogen delivery to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin.

By R. Alexander, Richard A. Smith, G. Schwarz, E. Boyer, J. Nolan, J. Brakebill. Environmental Science and Technology, 2008

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Food and feed trade as a driver in the global nitrogen cycle: 50-year trends (2014, background): “A typical example is the corn belt area in the Mississippi basin, with maizesoybean rotation accounting for most of US N exports, but also largely contributing to the eutrophication of the Gulf of Mexico (Alexander et al. 2008).”
• Mitigating harmful cyanobacterial blooms: strategies for control of nitrogen and phosphorus loads (2016, positive): “…On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) model provides predictions (e.g., responses to land use change) of long-term average stream discharge and nutrient concentrations from empirical fit of these variables to a series of explanatory physical and environmental predictors (Alexander et al. 2008).”
• Cost of reactive nitrogen release from human activities to the environment in the United States (2015, background): “In spite of these improvements in efficiency, cultivation of major grain and fodder crops still contribute the largest share of N leaked to the environment, and economic damages, in many US watersheds (Jordan and Weller 1996, Alexander et al 2008).”
• The Economics of Dead Zones: Causes, Impacts, Policy Challenges, and a Model of the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone (2014, background): “For example, agriculture contributes over 70 percent of total nitrogen and phosphorus in the NGOM (Alexander et al. 2008), while agriculture contributes about a fifth of the total nitrogen load and a third of the total phosphorus load in the Baltic (Turner et al. 1999).”