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County-level data in California We use annual crop yields, harvested area, production and economic value data for 58 counties in California for the years 1980–2015 from the California County Agricultural Commissioners’ reports21. We analyse the 20 most valuable perennial crops in California: almonds, wine grapes, strawberries, table grapes, walnuts, hay, pistachios, navel oranges, raisin grapes, […] More
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Affiliations Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Alma Dal Co , Simon van Vliet , Daniel Johannes Kiviet , Susan Schlegel & Martin Ackermann Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Duebendorf, Switzerland Alma Dal Co , Simon van Vliet , Daniel Johannes Kiviet , Susan Schlegel & Martin Ackermann Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Simon […] More
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A crocodile watches as wildebeest in Kenya cross the Mara River, whose waters are enriched by the skeletons of the animals that perish during the crossing. Credit: Julie Picardi/Barcroft Media/Getty Biogeochemistry 13 March 2020 Migrating wildebeest that drown in an African river enrich its waters. The bones of long-dead wildebeest feed one of Earth’s most […] More
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