Short communicationMicrobial component of radiocaesium retention in highly organic soils
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank CEH and NERC for funding this work; R. Creamer for help with soil collection and classification; S. Wright, J. Smith and D. Singleton for their assistance in the experiments, and B. Howard and M. Hornung for helpful comments.
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