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Original Articles

Soil microbial diversity of four German long-term field experiments

(Diversität von Bodenmikroorganismen in vier deutschen Langzeitversuchen)

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Pages 507-523 | Received 07 Apr 2006, Accepted 14 Jul 2006, Published online: 25 Jan 2007

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