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Coastal oceanic nitrogen loss

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Oxygen minimum zones crop up along the eastern boundaries of ocean basins in the low latitudes. A survey of the oxygen minimum zone in the eastern South Pacific points to the coastal zone as a hotspot for anammox-driven marine nitrogen loss.

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Figure 1: Map of chlorophyll distribution and oxygen-deficient waters off the coast of South America.

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  1. Bo Thamdrup is at the Institute of Biology and Nordic Centre for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark,

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