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Ph. D Thesis
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Acosta-Martínez, V., and Tabatabai, M. A. (2000). Enzyme activities in a limed
agricultural soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils 31:85-91.
Adam, G. Duncan H. (2001). Development of a sensitive and rapid method for the
measurement of total microbial activity using fluorescein diacetate (FDA) in a
range of soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33: 943-951.
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