Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-113

  Maranger, R ^a   Caraco, N ^b   Duhamel, J ^a   Amyot, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 65349141193     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo108     Document Type: Article

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