Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-479-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-479-2015
Special issue editorial
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06 Mar 2015
Special issue editorial |  | 06 Mar 2015

Editorial: Organic carbon pools in permafrost regions on the Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau

C. Mu, T. Zhang, Q. Wu, X. Peng, B. Cao, X. Zhang, B. Cao, and G. Cheng

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