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Original Articles

Assessment of Methods for Measuring Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon in Temperate Fruit Tree-Based Ecosystems

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Pages 2534-2543 | Received 17 Nov 2016, Accepted 27 Nov 2017, Published online: 18 Dec 2017

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