Estimating Earthworm Populations by Using Formalin

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• Publication year

  1959

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1959-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/1841661A0
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  Semantic Scholar

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