Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient

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  2016

• Venue

  Plant and Soil

• Publication date

  2016-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s11104-016-2908-z
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