Changes in global nitrogen cycling during the Holocene epoch

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7441, 2013, Pages 352-355

  McLauchlan, Kendra K ^a   Williams, Joseph J ^a   Craine, Joseph M ^a   Jeffers, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; HOLOCENE; ION TRANSPORT; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN CYCLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES;

EID: 84875338640     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11916     Document Type: Article

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