Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-1675-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-1675-2013
Research article
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13 Mar 2013
Research article |  | 13 Mar 2013

Storage and stability of organic carbon in soils as related to depth, occlusion within aggregates, and attachment to minerals

M. Schrumpf, K. Kaiser, G. Guggenberger, T. Persson, I. Kögel-Knabner, and E.-D. Schulze

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