Assessment of pollution-induced microbial community tolerance to heavy metals in soil using ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and biolog assay

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1067-1081

  Gong, Ping ^a   Siciliano, Steven D ^b   Srivastava, Sonali ^c   Greer, Charles W ^a   Sunahara, Geoffrey I ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB); Biolog; Heavy metals; Pollution induced community tolerance (PICT); Risk assessment; Soil contamination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 0041740142     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1080-700291905828     Document Type: Article

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