Articles | Volume 7, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-3893-2010
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-3893-2010
Research article
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29 Nov 2010
Research article |  | 29 Nov 2010

Stable carbon isotope fractionation during methanogenesis in three boreal peatland ecosystems

P. E. Galand, K. Yrjälä, and R. Conrad

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