Aquatic environments experiencing low-oxygen conditions have been described as hypoxic,
suboxic, or anoxic zones; oxygen minimum zones; and, in the popular media, the misnomer …

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for marine phytoplankton and indeed all life forms.
Current data show that P availability is growth‐limiting in certain marine systems and can …

Nutrient fluxes to coastal areas have risen in recent decades, leading to widespread hypoxia
and other ecological damage, particularly from nitrogen (N). Several factors make N more …

Lake Taihu (Taihu) is the third largest freshwater lake in China and an important drinking
water, fishing, and tourism resource for Jiangsu Province. Recent toxic cyanobacterial …

Large-scale commercialization of the Haber–Bosch (HB) process is resulting in
intensification of nitrogen (N) fertilizer use worldwide. Globally N fertilizer use is far …

Seasonal hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico has been linked to increased nitrogen
fluxes from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River Basins, though recent evidence shows that …

Coastal watersheds support more than one half of the world's human population and are
experiencing unprecedented urban, agricultural, and industrial expansion. The freshwater …

Expanding human activities along the freshwater to marine continuum of coastal watersheds
increasingly impact nutrient inputs, nutrient limitation of primary production, and efforts to …

The Mississippi River is one of the world's 10 largest rivers, with average freshwater
discharge into the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) of 380km3year− 1. In the northern GOM …

Since the first edition of Nitrogen in the Environment published in 1983, it has been
recognized as the standard in the field. In the time since the book first appeared, there has …