Bacterial community structures of antarctic soils

Antarctic Terrestrial Microbiology: Physical and Biological Properties of Antarctic Soils

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 9-33

  Bottos, Eric M ^a   Scarrow, Joshua W ^a   Archer, Stephen D J ^a   McDonald, Ian R ^a   Cary, S Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45213-0_2     Document Type: Chapter

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