Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4621-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4621-2012
Research article
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20 Nov 2012
Research article |  | 20 Nov 2012

Dew formation on the surface of biological soil crusts in central European sand ecosystems

T. Fischer, M. Veste, O. Bens, and R. F. Hüttl

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