Agriculture causes nitrate fertilization of remote alpine lakes
The long-range atmospheric transport and deposition of reactive nitrogen may be affected by human activities. Here, the authors use isotope data to constrain sources of reactive nitrogen to high elevation lakes in the Uinta Mountains, finding that the majority originates from distant agricultural ac...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10571 |