Inconsistent definitions of "urban" result in different conclusions about the size of urban carbon and nitrogen stocks.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Ecological Applications

• Publication date

  2012-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/11-1250.1PMID 22645829
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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