Patterns of Bacterial Diversity Along a Long-Term Mercury-Contaminated Gradient in the Paddy Soils

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 575-583

  Liu, Yu Rong ^a   Wang, Jian Jun ^b   Zheng, Yuan Ming ^a   Zhang, Li Mei ^a   He, Ji Zheng ^a,c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MINING; PROCEDURES; RICE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; ORYZA SATIVA; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84907697290     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: 1432184X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-014-0430-5     Document Type: Article

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