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Special issue: Biological soil crusts and their role in biogeochemical processes...
Biogeosciences, 14, 5775-5788, 2017
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Research article 22 Dec 2017
Research article | 22 Dec 2017
Bryophyte-dominated biological soil crusts mitigate soil erosion in an early successional Chinese subtropical forest
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