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Biogeosciences (BG) and its discussion forum Biogeosciences Discussions (BGD) are open access. Open access is the free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types by any user. Therefore, all content of BG and BGD is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) and authors retain copyright.
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