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Synergistic impacts of climate change and human activities on spatiotemporal organic nitrogen burial variation in a plateau lake in southwest China

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Pages 218-230 | Received 30 Aug 2022, Accepted 22 Apr 2023, Published online: 10 Aug 2023

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