From peat swamp forest to oil palm plantations: The stability of tropical peatland carbon
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Logged peat swamp forest supports greater macrofungal biodiversity than large‐scale oil palm plantations and smallholdings
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عنوان ژورنال: Geoderma
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0016-7061
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.02.021