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Nature Geoscience 1, 111–112 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo108

Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries

R. Maranger , N. Caraco , J. Duhamel & M. Amyot

Human activity has dramatically altered global nitrogen fluxes, nearly doubling the nitrogen export from land to coast. Fertilizer run-off accounts for much of this increase.