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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-2711-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-2711-2013
Research article
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23 Apr 2013
Research article |  | 23 Apr 2013

Factors challenging our ability to detect long-term trends in ocean chlorophyll

C. Beaulieu, S. A. Henson, Jorge L. Sarmiento, J. P. Dunne, S. C. Doney, R. R. Rykaczewski, and L. Bopp

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