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Database research record2025·United States and Sweden

Leaching the good stuff: nitrogen and phosphorus in real and experimental urban agricultural settings

Metson G., Sieczko A., Small G.

npj Urban Sustainability

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Field measurements in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Linkoping, Sweden showed that fertilized urban agriculture plots leached nitrogen and phosphorus, with legacy soil-management effects amplifying phosphorus losses, indicating urban growing can contribute to water-body eutrophication.