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Mapping Russian forest biomass with data from satellites and forest inventories

Focus on Northern Hemisphere High Latitude Climate and Environmental Change

R A Houghton1, D Butman2, A G Bunn3, O N Krankina4, P Schlesinger1 and T A Stone1

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