Increasing gap in human height between rich and poor countries associated to their different intakes of N and P

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Peñuelas, Josep ^a,b   Janssens, Ivan A ^c   Ciais, Philippe ^d   Obersteiner, Michael ^e   Krisztin, Tamás ^e   Piao, Shilong ^f   Sardans, Jordi ^a,b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FOOD INTAKE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITION; BODY HEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; ENERGY INTAKE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOSPHORUS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85038228152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17880-3     Document Type: Article

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