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n. - The process of the formation of humus.

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  • Living in this very top layer of fluffy, crumbly, moist soil mixed with leaf material and humus, are the animals that begin the process of humification.
  • Composting is a way of achieving the natural microbial humification process that converts the material into another form — the main conversion taking place being that of...
  • The authors analyzed plant macrofossils, peat humification and testate amoebae to reconstruct a proxy climate record spanning the last 7500 years of an ombrotrophic bog,...
  • Working with plant macrofossil, peat humification, and testate amoebae data, which they obtained from cores extracted from an ombrotrophic bog (Temple Hill Moss in...
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