  LTER scientists help unveil role of streams and rivers in pollution controlNetwork News / Updates - Posted on Mar 17, 2008 - 03:21 PM |
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The nation’s streams and rivers play a very important role in filtering out pollutants such as nitrogen and removing them from the ecosystem, researchers affiliated with the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network and their collaborators have determined. Their conclusion stems from the Lotic Intersite Nitrogen eXperiment (LINX) [1], a long term, NSF-funded study whose results were recently published in the scientific journal, Nature. Read press release... [2] Read full article or download a pdf copy… [3] |
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This article is from The LTER Network News http://www.lternet.edu/news/ The URL for this story is: http://www.lternet.edu/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=183 Links in this article [1] http://www.biol.vt.edu/faculty/webster/linx/ [2] http://www.mbl.edu/news/press_releases/2008_pr_03_13.html [3] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7184/abs/nature06686.html |