Decline in topsoil microbial quotient, fungal abundance and C utilization efficiency of rice paddies under heavy metal pollution across South China.

Agricultural soils have been increasingly subject to heavy metal pollution worldwide. However, the impacts on soil microbial community structure and activity of field soils have been not yet well characterized. Topsoil samples were collected from heavy metal polluted (PS) and their background (BGS)...

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Main Authors: Yongzhuo Liu, Tong Zhou, David Crowley, Lianqing Li, Dawen Liu, Jinwei Zheng, Xinyan Yu, Genxing Pan, Qaiser Hussain, Xuhui Zhang, Jufeng Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3372496?pdf=render