Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-19-53-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-19-53-2019
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28 Aug 2019
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Impact of land-use change in mountain semi-dry meadows on plants, litter decomposition and earthworms

Ines Jernej, Andreas Bohner, Ronnie Walcher, Raja Imran Hussain, Arne Arnberger, Johann G. Zaller, and Thomas Frank

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