Doubling of marine dinitrogen-fixation rates based on direct measurements

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2012-08-08

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature11338PMID 22878720
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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