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Arctic found to play unexpectedly large role in removing nitrogen
2016-10-26 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Areas of the Arctic play a larger role than previously thought in the global nitrogen cycle—the process responsible for keeping a critical element necessary for life flowing between the atmosphere, the land and oceans. The finding is reported in a new study of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications. In the new study, marine chemists and biologists from The University of Texas at Austin discovered that seabed microbes remove substa…
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