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    The short-term impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in China

    Data Air quality data The air quality data comprises a high-frequency dataset covering seven major sets of air pollutants. We obtained these data from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment34. The original dataset includes hourly readings of the AQI, PM2.5, PM10, SO2, O3, NO2 and CO concentrations from 1,605 air quality monitoring stations covering all […] More

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    Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce

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    Dysbiosis individualizes the fitness effect of antibiotic resistance in the mammalian gut

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    Biological control agent attack timing and population variability, but not density, best explain target weed density across an environmental gradient

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    Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains

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    Global biogeography of marine dispersal potential

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    The effects of atrazine on the microbiome of the eastern oyster: Crassostrea virginica

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    Gaps and opportunities in nitrogen pollution policies around the world

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