Technical note: Novel estimates of the leaf relative uptake rate of carbonyl sulfide from optimality theory

Wohlfahrt, Georg; Hammerle, Albin; Spielmann, Felix M.; Kitz, Florian; Yi, Chuixiang

doi:10.5194/bg-20-589-2023

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06 Feb 2023

Technical note |

| 06 Feb 2023

Technical note: Novel estimates of the leaf relative uptake rate of carbonyl sulfide from optimality theory

Georg Wohlfahrt, Albin Hammerle, Felix M. Spielmann, Florian Kitz, and Chuixiang Yi

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