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Research article
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07 Oct 2015
Research article |
| 07 Oct 2015
Annual litterfall dynamics and nutrient deposition depending on elevation and land use at Mt. Kilimanjaro
J. Becker
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
H. Pabst
Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
J. Mnyonga
Department of Forest Biology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
Y. Kuzyakov
Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Department of Agricultural Soil Science, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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