Response to Letter to the Editor-“Soil biofilms”: Misleading description of the spatial distribution of microbial biomass in soils

Peng Cai; Yichao Wu; Marc Redmile-Gordon

doi:10.1007/s42832-020-0025-7

Soil Ecology Letters ›› 2020, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (1) : 6 -7. DOI: 10.1007/s42832-020-0025-7

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Response to Letter to the Editor-“Soil biofilms”: Misleading description of the spatial distribution of microbial biomass in soils

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Peng Cai, Yichao Wu, Marc Redmile-Gordon. Response to Letter to the Editor-“Soil biofilms”: Misleading description of the spatial distribution of microbial biomass in soils. Soil Ecology Letters, 2020, 2(1): 6-7 DOI:10.1007/s42832-020-0025-7

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