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C:N ratio of Sediments in a sewage fed Urban Lake
Durga Madhab Mahapatra1, Chanakya H. N1,2 and Ramachandra T. V* 1-3
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1 Centre for Sustainable Technologies, 2 Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning,
3 Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India

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