Functional microbial diversity of the railway track bed

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 397, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 205-214

  Cederlund, Harald ^a   Thierfelder, Tomas ^a   Stenström, John ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biolog; Functional diversity; Generalised linear model; Microbial biomass; Railways; Substrate richness

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BIOMASS; EMBANKMENTS; MICROORGANISMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS;

FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; GENERALISED LINEAR MODELS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SUBSTRATE RICHNESS;

RAILROAD TRACKS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIOMASS; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MATTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAILWAY; RESPIRATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER CONTENT;

ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; KINETICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAILWAY; WATER CONTENT;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RAILROADS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 43049102441     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.041     Document Type: Article

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