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Causes of coastal waters pollution with nutrients, chemicals and plastics worldwide
2024
Micella, Ilaria | Kroeze, Carolien | Bak, Mirjam P. | Strokal, Maryna
Worldwide, coastal waters contain pollutants such as nutrients, plastics, and chemicals. Rivers export those pollutants, but their sources are not well studied. Our study aims to quantify river exports of nutrients, chemicals, and plastics to coastal waters by source and sub-basin worldwide. We developed a new MARINA-Multi model for 10,226 sub-basins. The global modelled river export to seas is approximately 40,000 kton of nitrogen, 1,800 kton of phosphorous, 45 kton of microplastics, 490 kton of macroplastics, 400 ton of triclosan and 220 ton of diclofenac. Around three-quarters of these pollutants are transported to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Diffuse sources contribute by 95–100 % to nitrogen (agriculture) and macroplastics (mismanaged waste) in seas. Point sources (sewage) contribute by 40–95 % to phosphorus and microplastics in seas. Almost 45 % of global sub-basin areas are multi-pollutant hotspots hosting 89 % of the global population. Our findings could support strategies for reducing multiple pollutants in seas.
Show more [+] Less [-]Base cation supply in spruce and beech ecosystems of the Strengbach catchment (Vosges mountains, N-E France)
1998
Fichter, J. (Equipe Cycles Biogeochimiques de l'Unite Ecosystemes Forestiers INRA, Champenoux (France).) | Dambrine, E. | Turpault, M.P. | Ranger, J.
Interacting effects of nutrients, pH - Al and elevated CO2 on the growth of red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) seedlings
1992
Shipley, B. (McGill Univ., Montreal, Que. (Canada). Dept. of Biology) | Lechowicz, M. | Dumont, S. | Hendershot, W.H.
Nutrient leaching from pine needles impacted by acidic cloudwater
1988
Waldman, J.M. (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School UMDNJ, Piscataway, NJ (USA). Dept. of Environmental and Community Medicine) | Hoffmann, M.R.
Effects of fertilization with MgSO(4) and (NH(4))(2)SO(4) on soil solution chemistry, mycorrhiza and nutrient content of fine roots in a Norway spruce stand
1990
Haug, I. (Eberhard-Karl-University, Tuebingen (Germany, F.R.). Inst. of Biology I) | Feger, K.H.
Nutient leaching from dormant trees at an elevated site
1989
Schuepp, P.H. (McGill Univ., Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Que. (Canada). Macdonald Coll., Dept. of Renewable Resources) | Hendershot, W.H.
The influence of Mg fertilization on growth and mineral contents of fine roots in (Picea abies (Karst) L.) stands at different stages of decline in NE-Bavaria
1990
Schneider, B.U. (Bayreuth Univ. (Germany, F.R.). Inst. of Soil Science and Soil Geography) | Zech, W.
