Sandy shores (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Sandy shores

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Permeable sands cover more than half of the continental shelf seafloor, where they function as huge filters, removing vast amounts of anthropogenically derived nitrogen that reaches the ocean via rivers and groundwater.

 

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Fanni Aspetsberger

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