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Hiltbrunner, E., Körner, C., Meier, R. et al. Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1285–1286 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0948-5
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