Acidic environments

Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 364-379

  Spijkerman, Elly ^a   Weithoff, Guntram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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