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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3453-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3453-2014
Research article
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02 Jul 2014
Research article |  | 02 Jul 2014

The declining uptake rate of atmospheric CO2 by land and ocean sinks

M. R. Raupach, M. Gloor, J. L. Sarmiento, J. G. Canadell, T. L. Frölicher, T. Gasser, R. A. Houghton, C. Le Quéré, and C. M. Trudinger

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