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Terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon inferred from terrestrial data Cover

Terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon inferred from terrestrial data

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Language: English
Page range: 420 - 432
Submitted on: Sep 27, 1995
Accepted on: Feb 29, 1996
Published on: Jan 1, 1996
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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