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The Forgotten Nutrient—The Role of Nitrogen in Permafrost Soils of Northern China

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Funding for the project is gratefully acknowledged and has been provided by the NSFC (Grant No. 41861134029) and DFG (Grant Nos. DA1217/4-1 and SCHL446/41-1).

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  1. Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 82467, Germany

    Elisabeth Ramm & Michael Dannenmann

  2. State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Chunyan Liu, Hongyu Yue, Wei Zhang & Yuepeng Pan

  3. Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China

    Xianwei Wang

  4. Chair of Soil Science, Science Center Weihenstephan, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University Munich, Freising, 85354, Germany

    Michael Schloter & Carsten W. Mueller

  5. Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analyses, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Oberschleissheim, 85764, Germany

    Michael Schloter & Silvia Gschwendtner

  6. Center of Molecular Ecophysiology (CMEP), College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China

    Bin Hu & Heinz Rennenberg

  7. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-1350, Denmark

    Carsten W. Mueller

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Ramm, E., Liu, C., Wang, X. et al. The Forgotten Nutrient—The Role of Nitrogen in Permafrost Soils of Northern China. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 37, 793–799 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-0027-5

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