Resilience of Soil Microbial Communities to Metals and Additional Stressors: DNA-Based Approaches for Assessing “Stress-on-Stress” Responses

Many microbial ecology studies have demonstrated profound changes in community composition caused by environmental pollution, as well as adaptation processes allowing survival of microbes in polluted ecosystems. Soil microbial communities in polluted areas with a long-term history of contamination h...

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Main Authors: Hamed Azarbad, Cornelis A. M. van Gestel, Maria Niklińska, Ryszard Laskowski, Wilfred F. M. Röling, Nico M. van Straalen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/17/6/933