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- Associate Professor. Project leader, correspondent author.
- Ph.D. Student. Assistant for nitrogen analyses.
- Researcher, Dip.to di Produzione Vegetate, Universitá della Basilicata, Italy. Assistant for soil survey and laboratory analyses.