Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 842-850

  Schulze, E D ^a   Luyssaert, S ^b,c   Ciais, P ^b   Freibauer, A ^d   Janssens, I A ^c   Soussana, J F ^e   Smith, P ^f   Grace, J ^g   Levin, I ^h   Thiruchittampalam, B ⁱ   Heimann, M ^a   Dolman, A J ^j   Valentini, R ^k   Bousquet, P ^b   Peylin, P ^b   Peters, W ^l   Rodenbeck C ^a   Etiope, G ^m   Vuichard, N ^b   Wattenbach, M ^f   Nabuurs, G J ^o   Poussi, Z ^b   Nieschulze, J ^a   Gash, J H ^j,n   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^e French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^j VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^l WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^m ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

ⁿ CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^o EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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EID: 71249152079     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo686     Document Type: Article

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