Adaptation of soil microbial community structure and function to chronic metal contamination at an abandoned Pb-Zn mine

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-11

  Epelde, Lur ^a   Lanzén, Anders ^a   Blanco, Fernando ^a   Urich, Tim ^b   Garbisu, Carlos ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evenness; Metal resistance; Metatranscriptomics; Mine soil

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINE; ADAPTATION; CADMIUM; CLAY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LEAD; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATIVE SPECIES; PH; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES EVENNESS; TAILINGS; ZINC;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS);

ALUMINUM SILICATE; CADMIUM; CLAY; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; ZINC;

ACCLIMATIZATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALUMINUM SILICATES; CADMIUM; ECOSYSTEM; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MINING; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; ZINC;

EID: 84943806995     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiu007     Document Type: Article

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