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The interaction between CO2 and plant nutrition: comments on a paper by Coleman, McConnaughay and Bazzaz

G I Ågren1

  • 1Department of Ecology and Environmental Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7072, S-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden.

Oecologia
|March 18, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
Nitrogen concentrationNitrogen productivityNitrogen use efficiency

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