Articles | Volume 11, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2147-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2147-2014
Research article
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17 Apr 2014
Research article |  | 17 Apr 2014

Bayesian calibration of a soil organic carbon model using Δ14C measurements of soil organic carbon and heterotrophic respiration as joint constraints

B. Ahrens, M. Reichstein, W. Borken, J. Muhr, S. E. Trumbore, and T. Wutzler

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