The carbon budget of upland peat soils

Drivers of Environmental Change in Uplands

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-112

  Worrall, Fred ^a   Evans, Martin G ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203886724-15     Document Type: Chapter

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