Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2008-09-11

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature07276PMID 18784722
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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