Journal article
Linking Watersheds to Coastal Marine Ecosystems: Global Nutrient River Export Trajectories 1970-2050
LOICZ INPRINT Newsletter, (2), pp.5-13
01/01/2010
Abstract
Human activities on land have markedly altered the export of dissolved and particulate nutrients from land to rivers and ultimately to coastal seas. As a result, carbon production, ecology, and circulation in the coastal ocean have been altered in ways that are still being discovered. Anthropogenic drivers, which include increased population, food production, sewage emissions and fossil fuel combustion, have led to both increased mobilisation of reactive nutrients and alterations of hydrological systems, including rivers (Meybeck & Vorosmarty, 2005). These alterations have In-turn been associated with a number of coastal problems, Including increased frequency and severity of hypoxic or anoxic conditions leading to fish kills, Increased frequency and severity of harmful algal blooms, and a general loss of biodiversity, among others.
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- Title
- Linking Watersheds to Coastal Marine Ecosystems: Global Nutrient River Export Trajectories 1970-2050
- Creators
- Lex BouwmanJohn HarrisonSybil SeitzingerEmilio Mayorga
- Publication Details
- LOICZ INPRINT Newsletter, (2), pp.5-13
- Academic Unit
- Environment, School of the (CAS); Harrison Research Group: Global Change and Watershed Biochemistry
- Identifiers
- 99900668012401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article