PH is the primary determinant of the bacterial community structure in agricultural soils impacted by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Wu, Yucheng ^a,b   Zeng, Jun ^a,b   Zhu, Qinghe ^a,b   Zhang, Zhenfa ^c   Lin, Xiangui ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 85008414669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep40093     Document Type: Article

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