Phosphorus
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The problem is that there's just too much nitrogen and
phosphorus
right now, too much phytoplankton falling to the bottom and decomposed by bacteria that use up the oxygen.
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Besides the sediment, there are dissolved molecules, nitrogen and
phosphorus.
The nitrogen and the
phosphorus
stimulate the growth of microscopic plants called phytoplankton.
The nitrogen that is put in fertilizers and the
phosphorus
goes on the land and drains off into the Mississippi River and ends up in the Gulf of Mexico.
And
phosphorus
has doubled.
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