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Role of Soil Fauna in Nitrogen Cycling

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  1. IRD, 01 BP 182, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso

    Michel Lepage

  2. Biogéochimie et écologie des milieux continentaux (UMR 7618), Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46 rue d’Ulm, 75230, Paris cedex 05, France

    Luc Abbadie

  3. Systématique et écologie animales, ULB cp 160/13, Avenue Roosevelt, 50, 1050, Bruxelles, Belgique

    Guy Josens

  4. Laboratoire d’écologie des sols tropicaux (UMR 137), 32 Avenue H. Varagnat, 93143, Bondy cedex, France

    Patrick Lavelle

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  2. Laboratoire d’écologie microbienne, CNRS-Université Lyon 1, Bâtiment Gregor Mendel, 69622, Villeurbanne cedex, France

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Lepage, M., Abbadie, L., Josens, G., Lavelle, P. (2006). Role of Soil Fauna in Nitrogen Cycling. In: Abbadie, L., Gignoux, J., Le Roux, X., Lepage, M. (eds) Lamto. Ecological Studies, vol 179. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-33857-8_16

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