Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains)

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Global Change Biology

• Publication date

  2009-05-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01815.x
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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