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Soil charcoal stability over the Holocene — Comment to the paper published by de Lafontaine and Asselin, Quaternary Research, v. 76, 2011, pp. 196–200

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Mikael Ohlson*
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Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway
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Email Address:mikael.ohlson@umb.no
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