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Laboratory-determined Phosphorus Flux from Lake Sediments as a Measure of Internal Phosphorus Loading
Published on: March 6, 2014
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Are nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratios of Chinese lakes actually increasing?
Boqiang Qin1,2, Yunlin Zhang3, Guangwei Zhu3
1Taihu Laboratory for Lake Ecosystem Research, State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China; qinbq@niglas.ac.cn.
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