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Microbial Populations of Arid Lands and their Potential for Restoration of Deserts
The rapid expansion of deserts in recent decades as a result of human actions combined with climatic disasters has highlighted the necessity to understand biological processes in arid environments. Whereas physical processes and the biology of flora and fauna have been relatively well studied in marginally used arid areas, knowledge of desert soil micro-organisms remains fragmentary. This chapt...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4082.216