Comment on “Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico” | Zendy

Tristan Ballard | Zendy; A. M. Michalak | Zendy; Gregory F. McIsaac | Zendy; Nancy N. Rabalais | Zendy; R. Eugene Turner | Zendy

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Comment on “Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico”

Author(s) -

Tristan Ballard,

A. M. Michalak,

Gregory F. McIsaac,

Nancy N. Rabalais,

R. Eugene Turner

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.aau8401

Subject(s) - nitrogen , environmental science , quality (philosophy) , water quality , chemistry , ecology , biology , philosophy , organic chemistry , epistemology

Van Meteret al . (Reports, 27 April 2018, p. 427) warn that achieving nitrogen reduction goals in the Gulf of Mexico will take decades as a result of legacy nitrogen effects. We discuss limitations of the modeling approach and demonstrate that legacy effects ranging from a few years to decades are equally consistent with observations. The presented time scales for system recovery are therefore highly uncertain.

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