Articles | Volume 12, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2517-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2517-2015
Research article
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29 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2015

First on-line isotopic characterization of N2O above intensively managed grassland

B. Wolf, L. Merbold, C. Decock, B. Tuzson, E. Harris, J. Six, L. Emmenegger, and J. Mohn

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