Faculty profile
Sarah Ruffell
Back to facultyAssociate Teaching ProfessorDepartment of BiologyUniversity of Waterloo
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Bacterial community composition is an important predictor of surface soil fertility across different land use types: a case study in the Three Gorges Reservoir area.
PeerJ · 2025
1 publications.
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Bacterial community composition is an important predictor of surface soil fertility across different land use types: a case study in the Three Gorges Reservoir area.
Xu L, Cheng D, Feng L, Lu X, Ruffell S, Wang H
PeerJ2025
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