Articles | Volume 11, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-4477-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-4477-2014
Research article
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25 Aug 2014
Research article |  | 25 Aug 2014

The implications of microbial and substrate limitation for the fates of carbon in different organic soil horizon types of boreal forest ecosystems: a mechanistically based model analysis

Y. He, Q. Zhuang, J. W. Harden, A. D. McGuire, Z. Fan, Y. Liu, and K. P. Wickland

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