Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3937-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3937-2018
Research article
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02 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 02 Jul 2018

Response of hydrology and CO2 flux to experimentally altered rainfall frequency in a temperate poor fen, southern Ontario, Canada

Danielle D. Radu and Tim P. Duval

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