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Shiozaki, T., Inomura, K., Fujiwara, A. et al. Reply to: Questioning High Nitrogen Fixation Rate Measurements in the Southern Ocean. Nat. Geosci. 15, 31–32 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00874-2
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