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Convergent evidence for widespread rock nitrogen sources in Earth’s surface environment

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Nitrogen availability is a pivotal control on terrestrial carbon sequestration and global climate change. Historical and contemporary views assume that nitrogen enters Earth’s land-surface ecosystems from the atmosphere. Here we demonstrate that bedrock is a nitrogen source that rivals atmospheric nitrogen inputs across major sectors of the global terrestrial environment.

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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6384/58
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06/04/2018