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C O Oduor1, N K Karanja2, R N Onwonga2

  • 1Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT), University of Nairobi, P. O. Box 29053-00625, Nairobi, Kenya. cllns.ouma07@gmail.com.

BMC Ecology
|November 8, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
EnclosureEnvironmental microbiologyLand degradationMicrobial biomassOrganic carbonParticulate carbonRehabilitationSoil quality

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