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Changes in winter climate: soil frost, root injury, and fungal communities

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Templer, P.H. Changes in winter climate: soil frost, root injury, and fungal communities. Plant Soil 353, 15–17 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-011-1064-8

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