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In search of the missing carbon sink: a model of terrestrial biospheric response to land-use change and atmospheric CO2 Cover

In search of the missing carbon sink: a model of terrestrial biospheric response to land-use change and atmospheric CO2

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|Jan 1995

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Language: English
Page range: 501 - 519
Submitted on: Jun 20, 1994
Accepted on: Mar 6, 1995
Published on: Jan 1, 1995
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 1995 Anthony W. King, William R. Emanuel, Stan D. Wullschleger, Wilfred M. Post, published by Stockholm University Press
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