Achieving better understanding phosphorus (P) flows through urban ecosystems is needed to conserve P, as non-renewable phosphate rock deposits become depleted and the global human population increases.
In this paper, we explore the interrelated dynamics of coastal population migration, economic instability, and anthropogenic phosphorus (P) flows.
Liu, Y., Villalba, G., Ayres, R. U. & Schroder, H. Global phosphorus flows and environmental impacts from a consumption perspective.
With conservationists and utility officials like Mr. Moline, representatives of those industries have for years called for some way to limit the phosphorus flowing into waterways.
Decades ago, some 64 million pounds of phosphorus flowed into Lake Erie each year from industrial and sewer outfalls, leaky septic tanks and runoff from fertilized lawns and farms.
According to one study by the Carnegie Institute for Science and Stanford University, most of the increase in the size of the blooms can be attributed to a rise in the amount of dissolved phosphorus flowing into the lake.
In this study, we established a lake mathematical model based on the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus flows among the biotic and abiotic substances in a water ecosystem.
Upstream, the whole agricultural production that feeds Paris Megacity was scrutinized and nitrogen and phosphorus flows in the agro-system were fully documented.
The continents would have become parched, preventing nutrients like phosphorus from flowing from the land to the sea.
Existing heterogeneity in phosphorus waste flows, agricultural phosphorus needs, the availability of resources, and spatial patterns of land use calls for a diverse array of phosphorus recycling strategies.
