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Is nutrient loading a smaller problem than we think?

A recent journal article in Estuaries and Coasts suggests that the problems with coastal sea grass destruction may not be so much due to eutrophication, as is commonly believed, but due to the depletion of top-level consumers in coastal and estuarine ecosystems. This paradigm could have major repercussions for management of coastal ecosystems, considering the research and management emphasis of recent decades on nutrient control.

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