Soil microbial communities and ecological risk assessment: Risk assessors' perspective

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 707-714

  Hull, Ruth N ^a,c   Klee, Ulysses ^a   Bryant, Douglas ^b   Copeland, Todd ^b  

^a Cantox Environmental Inc   (Canada)

^b Cantox Health Sciences International   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Microbial community assessment; Soil microorganisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844456797     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.1999.9657735     Document Type: Review

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