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  <dc:title xml:lang="en">Land Characteristics Database, 1983</dc:title>
  <dc:creator xml:lang="en">Ball, D. F., Institute of Terrestrial Ecology</dc:creator><dc:creator xml:lang="en">Radford, G. L., Institute of Terrestrial Ecology</dc:creator>
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  <dc:date xml:lang="en">1988-07-21T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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