Nitrogen Cycle - External Cycling: Losses and Gains

Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 261-278

  Jickells, T D ^a   Weston, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374711-2.00509-X     Document Type: Chapter

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