Do grasslands act as a perpetual sink for carbon?

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2014-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/gcb.12561PMID 24604749
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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