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68. δ 15N of soil nitrogen pools and their dynamics under decomposing leaf litters in a suburban native forest subject to repeated prescribed burning in southeast Queensland, Australia Y. Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-015-1117-3
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