Soil charcoal stability over the Holocene-Response to comments by Mikael Ohlson

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-156

  De Lafontaine, Guillaume ^a,b   Asselin, Hugo ^c  

^a UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

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EID: 84862616412     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.03.008     Document Type: Letter

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