That ceiling is 170 kg nitrogen per hectare. The Netherlands may exceed this ceiling under certain conditions (derogation). The conditions under which derogation is granted were tightened further in ...
One condition for derogation is that the excretion of nitrogen compounds in livestock manure in the Netherlands must not exceed 489.4 million kg as of 1 January 2022. The maximum level for phosphate ...
In 1934, Alfred Redfield discovered that the ratio of carbon to nitrogen to phosphorus is a nearly constant 106:16:1 throughout the world's oceans, in both phytoplankton biomass and in dissolved ...
When these nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich waters leak into streams, rivers and oceans, they stimulate the growth of tiny algae that strip the ecosystems of oxygen and light. The result is dead ...