The dynamics of phosphorus retention during an eight-year P-addition in a Neotropical headwater stream

摘要

Understanding the capacity of stream ecosystems to retain nutrients through physical-chemical processes and biotic assimilation has been a central goal of stream ecologists for decades. Currently, most of our understanding of nutrient saturation is based on short-term (<1 day) nutrient addition experiments, while predicting total stream ecosystem response to long-term anthropogenic nutrient loading requires considering the stream's capacity to remove nutrients over extended periods.