Comment on "Solute-specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in streams" by Hall et al. (2013)

González-Pinzón, R.; Mortensen, J.; Van Horn, D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5365-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5365-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5365-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 18

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17 Sep 2015

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| 17 Sep 2015

Comment on "Solute-specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in streams" by Hall et al. (2013)

R. González-Pinzón, J. Mortensen, and D. Van Horn

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SC C1918: 'Gonzalex-Pinzon critique of Hall et al. “Solute specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in streams”', Steven Thomas, 06 May 2015
- AC C2153: 'Reply to Steven Thomas', Ricardo González-Pinzón, 13 May 2015
RC C1950: 'Review of “Comment on “Solute Specific …” by Hall et al (2013)”', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 May 2015
- AC C2154: 'Reply to anonymous reviewer # 1', Ricardo González-Pinzón, 13 May 2015
RC C3013: 'Interactive comment on "Comment on "Solute-specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in streams" by Hall et al. (2013)" by González-Pinzón and colleagues', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Jun 2015
- AC C3411: 'Reply to anonymous reviewer # 2', Ricardo González-Pinzón, 08 Jul 2015
SC C4338: 'Reply to comment by R. González-Pinzón, J, Mortensen, and D. Van Horn', Robert Hall, 14 Aug 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (17 Aug 2015) by Katja Fennel

AR by Ricardo González-Pinzón on behalf of the Authors (03 Sep 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Sep 2015) by Katja Fennel

Short summary

Hall et al. (2013) presented a synthesis of 969 nutrient tracer experiments and used a scaling method to test the hypothesis that nutrient demand is constant with increasing stream size. In this comment we present a reanalysis of a subset of the data used by Hall et al. (2013) and propose that their correlations between nutrient uptake lengths and specific discharge are inadvertently spurious. Therefore, the conclusions derived from such correlations are debatable.