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The mysterious missing sink

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Figure 1: The global carbon whodunnit — where is the missing sink? The possibility of a single culprit has been all but dismissed by Nadelhoffer et al.3.

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Schindler, D. The mysterious missing sink. Nature 398, 105–107 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/18111

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