The effects of land use on biomass and catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities

African Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 4607-4612

  Asgharipour, Mohammad R ^a   Rafiei, Majid ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Catabolic response profiles methodology; Land use; Microbial biomass; Microbial diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053079277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1991637X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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