The failure of nitrogen and lignin control of decomposition in a North American desert

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• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  1985-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/BF00378913PMID 28310443
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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