How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health

2020/12/12 by Noah Fierer, Stephen A. Wood, Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita · 10 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics #Soil Geostatistics and Mapping

paper · doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108111

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