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Nitrogen oxides and tropical agriculture

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Figure 1: ‘Hole-in-the-pipe’ model of the regulation of trace-gas production and consumption by nitrification and denitrification12.
Figure 2: Model of the relationship between water-filled pore space (WFPS) of soils and the relative fluxes of nitrogen gases from nitrification.

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Bouwman, A. Nitrogen oxides and tropical agriculture. Nature 392, 866–867 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/31809

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