Agricultural ammonia emissions contribute to China's urban air pollution

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 265-266

  Gu, Baojing ^a,b   Sutton, Mark A ^c   Chang, Scott X ^d   Ge, Ying ^a   Chang, Jie ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 84903212231     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14.WB.007     Document Type: Letter

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