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Ocean acidification may hamper food web’s nitrogen-fixing heroes
Earlier experimental glitches rearing Trichodesmium microbes may explain past conflicting results
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Susan Milius
1:00pm, April 28, 2017


A hard look at experimental setups may start to explain dueling predictions on whether ocean acidification will boost, or choke, vital marine nitrogen fixers. So far, the new look trends toward choking.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ocean-acidification-food-web-nitrogen-fixing?tgt=nr
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Re: Ocean acidification may hamper food web’s nitrogen-fixing heroes
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2017, 05:56:59 am »
Important research.
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