Quantitative Microbial Community Analysis of Three Different Sulfidic Mine Tailing Dumps Generating Acid Mine Drainage
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Microbial communities in acid mine drainage.
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00649-08