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Assessment of Labile Organic Carbon in Soil Using Sequential Fumigation Incubation Procedures
Published on: October 29, 2016
Incubation conditions of forest soil yielding maximum dissolved organic nitrogen concentrations and minimal residual
C Walker1, E Davidson, W Kingerlee
1Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
The Biological Bulletin
|October 30, 2003
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