Microbial community-based measurements to estimate heavy metal effects in soil: The use of phospholipid fatty acid patterns and bacterial community tolerance

Ambio

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-61

  Bååth, Erland ^a   Frostegård, Åsa ^a   Díaz Raviña, Montserrat ^b   Tunlid, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; HEAVY METAL; MICROORGANISM; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACID; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0031934397     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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31. This work was supported by the Swedish National Environmental Protection Agency, the European Environmental Research Organization (EERO) and the Swedish Natural Science Research Council.