Nitrogen as the limiting nutrient for eutrophication in coastal marine ecosystems: Evolving views over three decades

By R. Howarth, Roxanne Marino. 2006

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Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• Signatures of nutrient limitation and co-limitation: responses of autotroph internal nutrient concentrations to nitrogen and phosphorus additions (2015, background): “N versus P) has traditionally been evaluated separately due to the long-held paradigms of single-nutrient limitation of primary production in most ecosystems (Vitousek and Howarth 1991, van der Ploeg et al. 1999, Howarth and Marino 2006).”
• Phosphorus dynamics and limitation of fast- and slow-growing temperate seaweeds in Oslofjord, Norway (2010, background): “…major limiting nutrient to plant growth in temperate coastal ecosystems, while phosphorus is recognized as being the main limiting nutrient for aquatic plant growth in tropical areas and in areas with carbonate rich sediments (Howarth 1988, Lapointe et al. 1992, Nixon 1995, Howarth & Marino 2006).”
• Phytoplankton responses to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in unproductive Swedish lakes along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition (2008, background): “Debates concerning large-scale aquatic Neutrophication have mainly focused on coastal marine systems (Vitousek et al. 1997, Howarth & Marino 2006), while lakes have been largely neglected, probably because production in lakes has generally been considered to be phosphorus (P)-limited (Kalff 2002).”
• Evidence of sewage-driven eutrophication and harmful algal blooms in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (2015, background): “diseases, fish kills, and loss of seagrass and coral reef ecosystems (NRC, 2000; Howarth and Marino, 2006; Rockström et al., 2009).”
• Harmful algal blooms: How strong is the evidence that nutrient ratios and forms influence their occurrence? (2012, background): “It is widely accepted that in coastal waters, it is the availability of dissolved inorganic N as ammonium ðNHþ4 Þ, nitrate ðNO 3 Þ and nitrite ðNO 2 Þ that is most likely to constrain (limit) phytoplankton growth (Ryther and Dunstan, 1971; Howarth and Marino, 2006).”
• Distribution of nutrients for seaweed cultivation around salmon cages at farm sites in north-west Scotland (2008, background): “Under open ocean conditions, nitrogen is more likely to be limiting for growth than phosphorus (Howarth and Marino, 2006).”
• Microbes and the marine phosphorus cycle (2007, background): “Although most pristine estuarine and coastal ecosystems are light-, N-, or Felimited, seasonal P limitation is becoming more common in estuaries and riverdominated continental shelf waters as global N loading from agriculture and other sources increases (Howarth and Marino, 2006).”
• Removal of arsenic, methylene blue, and phosphate by biochar/AlOOH nanocomposite (2013, background): “Inorganic phosphorous (P) and nitrogen (N) pollutants release into runoff from human activities are considered as the major cause of eutrophication, which degrades fresh water and imposes great risk to the ecological systems [4,5].”
• Expanding the concept of trophic state in aquatic ecosystems: It’s not just the autotrophs (2007, background): “Pinckney et al., 2001; Howarth and Marino; 2006 Smith, 2006) and other coastal waters (e.g.”
• Algal bloom and its economic impact (2016, background): “Nevertheless it tooks times to recognize the key role of nitrogen in control of coastal water productivity and the observation that phosphorus reduction programs did not always improve water quality in estuaries and coastal marine ecosystem, pointed to the possible role of nitrogen in water eutrophi”
• Effects of N : P loading ratios on phytoplankton community composition, primary production and N fixation in a eutrophic lake (2009, background): “3 mmole N m day in a study of a brackish-water phytoplankton community, and Howarth et al. (1988b) report N fixation rates ranging between 14 and 660 mmole N m year, which corresponds to 0.”
• Ecological Stoichiometry, Biogeochemical Cycling, Invasive Species, and Aquatic Food Webs: San Francisco Estuary and Comparative Systems (2011, background): “The ratio of N:P loads from all sources to the Hudson also increased from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s (Howarth et al, 2006 ).”
• Mini-review: A priori considerations for bacteria–algae interactions in algal biofuel systems receiving municipal wastewaters (2014, background): “nutrient in fresh waters, N may often be the primary limiting nutrient in marine ecosystems [27,28].”