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Craine, J.M., Elmore, A.J., Wang, L. et al. Reply to: Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1287–1288 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0949-4
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