Light limitation of nutrient-poor lake ecosystems

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2009-07-23

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature08179PMID 19626113
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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