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Haynes, R. (2008). Soil Organic Matter Quality and the Size and Activity of the Microbial Biomass: Their Significance to the Quality of Agricultural Soils. In: Huang, Q., Huang, P.M., Violante, A. (eds) Soil Mineral Microbe-Organic Interactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77686-4_8
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