Veterinary antibiotics at environmentally relevant concentrations inhibit soil iron reduction and nitrification

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2470-2472

  Toth, John D ^a   Feng, Yucheng ^b   Dou, Zhengxia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Chlortetracycline; Community level physiological profile; Iron reduction; Monensin; Nitrification; Respiration; Sulfadimethoxine

Indexed keywords

CHLORTETRACYCLINE; COMMUNITY LEVEL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROFILES; IRON REDUCTION; MONENSIN; RESPIRATION; SULFADIMETHOXINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; DENITRIFICATION; IRON; MANURES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANTIBIOTICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INHIBITION; INHIBITOR; IRON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REDUCTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL RESPIRATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80053356361     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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