Methyl-mercury affects microbial activity and biomass, bacterial community structure but rarely the fungal community structure

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 164-173

  Rieder, Stephan R ^a,b   Frey, Beat ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Basal respiration; Hg; ITS gene; Mercury; Methyl Hg; Microbial biomass; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T RFLP)

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BASAL RESPIRATION; METHYL-HG; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

ALKYLATION; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; FORESTRY; FUNGI; GENES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; RNA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOILS;

MERCURY (METAL);

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; METHYLMERCURY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLYMORPHISM; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TAXONOMY; TOXICITY;

ALKYLATION; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; FORESTRY; FUNGI; GENES; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SOIL;

SWITZERLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; OTUS;

EID: 84878979138     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.04.017     Document Type: Article

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