Organisms of the Nitrogen Cycle Under Extreme Conditions: Low Temperature, Salinity, pH Value and Water Stress

Biology of the Nitrogen Cycle

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 369-379

  Stres, Blaž ^a   Bonete, Maria José ^b   Martínez Espinosa, Rosa Maria ^b   Mahne, Ivan ^a   Bothe, Hermann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 58149184617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452857-5.50025-4     Document Type: Chapter

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