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Spatial and seasonal variations in the stable carbon isotopic composition of methane in stream sediments of eastern Amazonia Cover

Spatial and seasonal variations in the stable carbon isotopic composition of methane in stream sediments of eastern Amazonia

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Language: English
Page range: 21 - 31
Submitted on: Dec 6, 2006
Accepted on: Aug 14, 2007
Published on: Jan 1, 2008
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2008 José Mauro Sousa Moura, Christopher S. Martens, Marcelo Zacharias Moreira, Risonaldo Leal Lima, Irene Cibelle Gonçalves Sampaio, Howard P. Mendlovitz, Mary C. Menton, published by Stockholm University Press
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