AN INVESTIGATION OF THE BIOTIC FACTORS DETERMINING THE RATES OF PLANT DECOMPOSITION ON BLANKET BOG

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• Publication year

  1978

• Venue

  Journal of Ecology

• Publication date

  1978-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/2259155
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  Semantic Scholar

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