Response of forest soil bacterial communities to mercury chloride application

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 329-337

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

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Basal respiration; Critical limit; Forest soils; Hg; Mercury biosensor; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BASAL RESPIRATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CRITICAL LIMIT; FOREST SOILS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FORESTRY; MERCURY (METAL);

SOILS;

BIOAVAILABILITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST SOIL; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL RESPIRATION;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FORESTS; MERCURY; RESPIRATION; SENSORS; SOIL;

EID: 84880261802     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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