The Biology of Composting: a Review

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Waste Management & Research

• Publication date

  1983-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0734242X8300100118
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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