Articles | Volume 10, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-6911-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-6911-2013
Research article
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04 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 04 Nov 2013

Dynamics of dissolved inorganic carbon and aquatic metabolism in the Tana River basin, Kenya

F. Tamooh, A. V. Borges, F. J. R. Meysman, K. Van Den Meersche, F. Dehairs, R. Merckx, and S. Bouillon

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