Agricultural Nitrogen Trends in the Mississippi Basin, 1949-1997

Download or read book Agricultural Nitrogen Trends in the Mississippi Basin, 1949-1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nitrogen transported through the Mississippi River basin is the principal nutrient responsible for hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Agriculture is the major contributor to the river's nitrogen load. The temporal and geographic distribution of excess nitrogen available to streams from agriculture was calculated using dominant sources and losses of nitrogen in hydrologic regions and subregions.