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Aleš Kučera1 , Pavel Samec1 , Aleš Bajer1 , Keith Ronald Skene2 , Tomáš Vichta1 , Valerie Vranová1 \*, Ram Swaroop Meena3 and Rahul Datta1

1 Department of Geology and Pedology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

2 Biosphere Research Institute, Letham, Angus, United Kingdom

3 Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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