Methane sources and sinks in a periodically flooded South African savanna

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-111

  Otter, Luanne B ^a,b   Scholes, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODED SOIL; FLUX MEASUREMENT; METHANE; SAVANNA; SOIL EMISSION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033766235     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GB900068     Document Type: Article

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