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The nitrogen cycle
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Metadata
- Authors
- Stein, L. Y., & Klotz, M. G.
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-02
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- R94-R98
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2253574282
- Cited by
- 624
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 26.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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