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A response to ‘Changes in water colour between 1986 and 2006 in the headwaters of the River Nidd, Yorkshire, UK: a critique of methodological approaches and measurement of burning management’ by Yallop et al

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    Pippa J. Chapman, Sheila M. Palmer, Brian J. Irvine, Gordon Mitchell & Adrian T. McDonald

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Chapman, P.J., Palmer, S.M., Irvine, B.J. et al. A response to ‘Changes in water colour between 1986 and 2006 in the headwaters of the River Nidd, Yorkshire, UK: a critique of methodological approaches and measurement of burning management’ by Yallop et al. Biogeochemistry 111, 105–109 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-011-9665-0

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