Does long-term fertilization treatment affect the response of soil ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities to Zn contamination?

Plant and Soil

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 245-254

  Xia, Yue ^a   Zhu, Yong Guan ^a   Gu, Qing ^a   He, Ji Zheng ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

AOB; Bacterial populations; Long term fertilization; Nitrification; Zn toxicity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; POPULATION SIZE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOXICITY; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 38349111486     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-007-9441-z     Document Type: Article

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