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IN 1964 Waring and Bremner1 proposed a simple and attractive laboratory method for measuring an index to potentially available mineral nitrogen in the soil under anaerobic conditions of incubation; the original method has been compared with the aerobic incubation procedure of Bremner2.
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ROBINSON, J. Anaerobic Incubation of Soil and the Production of Ammonium. Nature 214, 534 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214534a0
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