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The global carbon cycle is the fluxes of carbon among four main reservoirs: fossil carbon, the atmosphere, the oceans, and the land surface.

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Zhang, Z. (2018). Ecosystem and Carbon Cycle. In: Multivariate Time Series Analysis in Climate and Environmental Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67340-0_8

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