Synthesis: Emerging issues and challenges for an integrated understanding of soil carbon fluxes

Soil Carbon Dynamics: An Integrated Methodology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 257-271

  Bahn, Michael ^a   Kutsch, Werner L ^b   Heinemeyer, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511711794.015     Document Type: Chapter

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