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Response to concerns and uncertainties relating to methane emissions synthesis for vegetated coastal ecosystems
Alia N Al-Haj1, Robinson W Fulweiler1,2
1Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Global Change Biology
|June 24, 2020
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