Evidence for self-organization in determining spatial patterns of stream nutrients, despite primacy of the geomorphic template [Ecology]

Nutrients in freshwater ecosystems are highly variable in space and time. Nevertheless, the variety of processes contributing to nutrient patchiness, and the wide range of spatial and temporal scales at which these processes operate, obfuscate how this spatial heterogeneity is generated. Here, we describe the spatial structure of stream nutrient...

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