BACTERIAL BIODIVERSITY IN SOIL WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CHEMICALLY-CONTAMINATED SOILS

Authors
TREVORS JT
Citation
Jt. Trevors, BACTERIAL BIODIVERSITY IN SOIL WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CHEMICALLY-CONTAMINATED SOILS, Water, air and soil pollution, 101(1-4), 1998, pp. 45-67
Citations number
160
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences","Water Resources","Metereology & Atmospheric Sciences
Journal title
Water, air and soil pollution → ACNP
ISSN journal
00496979
Volume
101
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
45 - 67
Database
ISI
SICI code
0049-6979(1998)101:1-4<45:BBISWA>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Microorganisms isolated from soil are sources of known and new microor ganisms and genetic material. This review examines general principles of soil bacterial biodiversity, limitations in sampling soils, and exa mples of bacterial diversity in chemically-contaminated soils. Both co nventional and molecular methods used to assess microbial biodiversity in soils will be addressed as well as selected examples of the effect s of organic and inorganic pollutants on soil microbial diversity.