The inventory of soil biological diversity: Concepts and general guidelines

A Handbook of Tropical Soil Biology: Sampling and Characterization of Below-ground Biodiversity

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Swift, M J ^a   Bignell, David E ^b   Moreira, Fátima M S ^c   Huising, E Jeroen ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

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