Reconsideration of the planetary boundary for phosphorus

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Carpenter, Stephen R ^a   Bennett, Elena M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

eutrophication; freshwater; peak phosphorus; phosphorus; planetary boundaries; water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952956176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014009     Document Type: Article

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