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A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere [1]

Dinitrogen (N2) fixation is widely recognized as an important process in controlling ecosystem responses to global environmental change, both today and in the past; however, significant discrepancies exist between theory and observations of patterns of N2 fixation across major sectors of the land biosphere.

Publication Date: 
17/07/2008
Benjamin Z. Houlton [2], Ying-Ping Wang [3], Peter M. Vitousek & et al [4]
Nature [5]
454
7202
327
Tags:
Ecosystems [6], Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx) [7], Atmosphere And Ozone Layer [8], Atmosphere [9], Climate Change [10], Flora [11]
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