@article{b2541e6fac8f4f7b81c86931047c6915,
title = "Nitrogen Cycle: 21st-century rise in anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on a remote coral reef",
abstract = "With the rapid rise in pollution-associated nitrogen inputs to the western Pacific, it has been suggested that even the open ocean has been affected. In a coral core from Dongsha Atoll, a remote coral reef ecosystem, we observe a decline in the 15N/14N of coral skeleton-bound organic matter, which signals increased deposition of anthropogenic atmospheric N on the open ocean and its incorporation into plankton and, in turn, the atoll corals. The first clear change occurred just before 2000 CE, decades later than predicted by other work. The amplitude of change suggests that, by 2010, anthropogenic atmospheric N deposition represented 20 ± 5% of the annual N input to the surface ocean in this region, which appears to be at the lower end of other estimates.",
author = "Haojia Ren and Chen, {Yi Chi} and Wang, {Xingchen T.} and Wong, {George T.F.} and Cohen, {Anne L.} and DeCarlo, {Thomas M.} and Weigand, {Mira A.} and Mii, {Horng Sheng} and Sigman, {Daniel M.}",
note = "Funding Information: Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST) grant 105-2628-M-002-007-MY3, National Taiwan University grants NTU-SINICA-105R104513, NTU-CESRP-105R7625, and NTU-CDP-105R7719 to H.R., the Sustainability Science Research Program of the Academia Sinica to G.T.F.W. and A.L.C., Taiwan MOST grant NSC 101-2611- M-001-003-MY3 to G.T.F.W., U.S. NSF grants 1536368 and 1537338 to A.L.C. and D.M.S., the Grand Challenges Program of Princeton University to D.M.S., and an Academia Sinica Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship to H.R.",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1126/science.aal3869",
language = "English",
volume = "356",
pages = "749--752",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "6339",
}