Implications of land ecosystem-atmosphere interactions for strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation

Richard Betts

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2007.00284.x

Implications of land ecosystem-atmosphere interactions for strategies for climate change adaptation and mitigation

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 59 (2007): Issue 3

By: Richard Betts

Open Access

|Jan 2007

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