Humans' Contribution to Oceanic Nitrogen is Growing (8 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Humans' Contribution to Oceanic Nitrogen is Growing (8 of 9)

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The 3-kilometer wide backreef in north side of Dongsha Atoll, South China Sea with coral reefs, mostly massive Porites, in the foreground, partly bleached seagrass bed in the middle, and reef crest in the background. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 19, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Ren at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues was titled, "21st-century rise in anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on a remote coral reef."

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Dongsha Atoll Research Station

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