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Soil microbial community responding to moderately elevated nitrogen deposition in a Japanese cool temperate forest surrounded by fertilized grasslands

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Pages 606-616 | Received 03 Aug 2021, Accepted 26 Aug 2021, Published online: 16 Sep 2021

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