The carbon balance of Africa: synthesis of recent research studies

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Publication date

  2011-05-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsta.2010.0328PMID 21502175
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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