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A History of Atmospheric CO2 and Its Effects on Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems pp 329–349Cite as

The Carbon Cycle over the Past 1000 Years Inferred from the Inversion of Ice Core Data

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Trudinger, C., Enting, I., Etheridge, D., Francey, R., Rayner, P. (2005). The Carbon Cycle over the Past 1000 Years Inferred from the Inversion of Ice Core Data. In: Baldwin, I., et al. A History of Atmospheric CO2 and Its Effects on Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 177. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27048-5_15

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