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Structure and Reactivity of a Biological Soil Crust from a Xeric Sandy Soil in Central Europe

Michael Hoppert Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Rudolph Reimer Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Anne Kemmling Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Annekatrin Schröder Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Bettina Günzl Albrecht-von Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Vegetationskunde und Populationsbiologie Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Thilo Heinken Institut für Biologie, Systematische Botanik und Pflanzengeographie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Pages 183-191 | Received 01 Mar 2003, Accepted 01 Jun 2003, Published online: 17 Aug 2010

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