Animal pee in the sea: consumer‐mediated nutrient dynamics in the world's changing oceans

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2017-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/gcb.13625PMID 28217892
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