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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-581-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-581-2020
Research article
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05 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 05 Feb 2020

Dissolved organic carbon mobilized from organic horizons of mature and harvested black spruce plots in a mesic boreal region

Keri L. Bowering, Kate A. Edwards, Karen Prestegaard, Xinbiao Zhu, and Susan E. Ziegler

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