Does the study evaluate trends in stream nutrient loads?
|Back to Top| No. The study is not intended to evaluate trends in actual stream nutrient loads or determine whether nutrient conditions are getting worse or better. Rather, the study is focused on improving understanding of the major nutrient sources, including land uses and human activities, that contribute nitrogen and phosphorus to the northern Gulf of Mexico; to quantify the hydrologic and biogeochemical controls on the transport of nitrogen and phosphorus in watersheds; and, to describe the watershed properties that explain spatial variability in long-term average flow and nutrient conditions in streams.
