Response to Comment on “Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico”

Comment on “Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico”

(2019) Tristan C. Ballard et al.   SCIENCE

Legacy nitrogen may prevent achievement of water quality goals in the Gulf of Mexico

(2018) K. J. Van Meter et al.   SCIENCE

Time lags in watershed-scale nutrient transport: an exploration of dominant controls

(2017) K J Van Meter et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Two centuries of nitrogen dynamics: Legacy sources and sinks in the Mississippi and Susquehanna River Basins

(2017) K. J. Van Meter et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

(2016) K J Van Meter et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Illinois River Nitrate-Nitrogen Concentrations and Loads: Long-term Variation and Association with Watershed Nitrogen Inputs

(2016) Gregory F. McIsaac et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY