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CARBON FLUXES ACROSS REGIONS: OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS AT MULTIPLE SCALES

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  1. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Beverly E. Law

  2. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Dave Turner

  3. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    John Campbell

  4. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Michael Lefsky

  5. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Michael Guzy

  6. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Osbert Sun

  7. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Steve Van Tuyl

  8. College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 97331-5752, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Warren Cohen

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    JIANGUO WU

  2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 89193-3478, Las Vegas, NV, USA

    K. BRUCE JONES

  3. USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Center for Forested Wetlands Research, 29414, Charleston, SC, USA

    HARBIN LI

  4. Department of Zoology, Miami University, 45056, Oxford, OH, USA

    ORIE L. LOUCKS

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Law, B.E. et al. (2006). CARBON FLUXES ACROSS REGIONS: OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS AT MULTIPLE SCALES. In: WU, J., JONES, K.B., LI, H., LOUCKS, O.L. (eds) SCALING AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN ECOLOGY. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4663-4_9

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