Estimating soil carbon stocks of Africa
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Soil carbon stocks in ecoregions of Africa M. Henry, R. Valentini, and M. Bernoux Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, UR SeqBio, SupAgro, Bat. 12, 2 place Viala, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France Laboratorio di Ecologia Forestale, Di.S.A.F.Ri. – Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Via Camillo de Lellis, snc – 01100, Viterbo, Italy AgroParisTech – ENGREF, GEEFT, 648 rue Jean-François Breton, BP 7355, 34086 Montpellier Cedex 4, France Received: 20 October 2008 – Accepted: 20 October 2008 – Published: 13 January 2009 Correspondence to: M. Henry ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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