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Soil charcoal stability over the Holocene—Response to comments by Mikael Ohlson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Guillaume de Lafontaine*
Affiliation:
INRA, UMR 1202 BIOGECO, F-33610 Cestas, France, Univ. Bordeaux, UMR 1202 BIOGECO, F-33400 Talence, France
Hugo Asselin*
Affiliation:
NSERC/UQAT/UQAM Industrial Chair in Sustainable Forest Management, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 445 boulevard de l'Université, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada, J9X 5E4
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Corresponding author. Fax: 33 5 57 12 28 81. Email Address:gdelafon@pierroton.inra.fr
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