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Soil carbon stocks and changes in the Republic of Ireland

R W Tomlinson1

  • 1School of Geography, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK. r.tomlinson@qub.ac.uk

Journal of Environmental Management
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