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On the validity of natural regeneration in determination of land-use baseline

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Sampo Soimakallio would like to thank Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation for financing.

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  1. Climate Change Programme, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Mechelininkatu 34a, P.O. Box 140, 00251, Helsinki, Finland

    Sampo Soimakallio

  2. Department of Sustainable Development, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Miguel Brandão, Göran Finnveden & Martin Erlandsson

  3. IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, P.O. Box 53020, 400 14, Göteborg, Sweden

    Tomas Ekvall & Per-Erik Karlsson

  4. NSW Department of Primary Industries, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia

    Annette Cowie

  5. IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, P.O. Box 210 60, 100 31, Stockholm, Sweden

    Martin Erlandsson

  6. Energy Systems, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, Espoo, 02044 VTT, Finland

    Kati Koponen

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Soimakallio, S., Brandão, M., Ekvall, T. et al. On the validity of natural regeneration in determination of land-use baseline. Int J Life Cycle Assess 21, 448–450 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-016-1032-x

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