An Uncertain Future for Soil Carbon
- 12 September 2008
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 321 (5895), 1455-1456
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1160232
Abstract
A detailed knowledge of how carbon cycles through soils is crucial for predicting future atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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