Microbial and plant ecology of a long-term TNT-contaminated site

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-126

  Travis, Emma R ^a   Bruce, Neil C ^b   Rosser, Susan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; Grass; Microbial ecology; Phytotoxicity; Pseudomonads; TNT

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL POLLUTION; TOLUENE;

BRYOPHYTES; GRASS; NITROAROMATIC COMPOUNDS; PHYTOTOXICITY; PSEUDOMONADS; TRINITROTOLUENE (TNT);

TOXIC MATERIALS;

TRINITROTOLUENE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTAMINATED LAND; EXPLOSIVE; GRASS; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PHYTOTOXICITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRINITROTOLUENE; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSS; PLANT ECOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTION; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; PLANTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS; TRINITROTOLUENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 41949106252     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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