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Many publications which deal with soils in urban environments begin with sentences such as “there is still very little knowledge about soils of the urban environment “or” up to now soil sciences have dealt almost exclusively with soils in agricultural and forested environments.” Is this true?
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Meuser, H. (2010). Introduction. In: Contaminated Urban Soils. Environmental Pollution, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9328-8_1
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