Overview of Stressor: Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation and harvest of plants and animals for human use.

The figure at right shows a period of increase in coastal eutrophication in relation to global additions of anthropogenically-fixed nitrogen (Boesch 2002).

Controlling factors that are affected by agriculture :

Hydrodynamics   Nutrients   Sediment Quality   Turbidity  
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