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High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

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Anja Laukötter¹

¹Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Forschungsbereich Geschichte der Gefühle, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Deutschland, laukoetter@mpib-berlin.mpg.de.

|August 29, 2012

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