Old Habits are Hard to Break: Modern HABs, Nitrogen, Lake Management

  • The question for many scientists studying the fate of this “new” reactive nitrogen in aquatic systems is: Since decades of phosphorus-focused management has not prevented them from occurring, what is promoting non-nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, causing them to form blooms and produce toxins? A growing body of evidence shows that the amount and form of nitrogen available to primary producers plays an important role in answering this question.

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    TITLE  |  Old Habits are Hard to Break: Modern HABs, Nitrogen, Lake Management
    LOCATION  |  Global
    SOURCE  |  LakeLine 37:2, Summer 2017, pp. 10-13
    AUTHORS  |  Mark J. McCarthy, Justin A. Myers, and Silvia E. Newell