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Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life

'This is a way that nitrogen is lost from an ecosystem that people have never accounted for before,' said Jed Sparks, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, Cornell University, and co-author of the study. Full Article at New Kerala

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