Abundance and Viability of the Groundwater Microbial Communities from a Borehole in the Tono Uranium Deposit Area, Central Japan

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 63-74

  Murakami, Yuki ^a   Fujita, Yuka ^a   Naganuma, Takeshi ^a   Iwatsuki, Teruki ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

spatial variability; subsurface microbiology; total count; viable count

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961397791     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.2002.63     Document Type: Article

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