The origin of litter chemical complexity during decomposition.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2012-10-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01837.xPMID 22897741
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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