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Too much of a good thing: fertilizer 'one of the three major drivers of biodiversity loss this century'

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-07-15

The world’s grasslands are being destabilized by fertilization, according to a paper recently published in the journal Nature. In a study of 41 grassland communities on five continents, researchers found that the presence of fertilizer weakened grassland species diversity.

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