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Microbes and heavy metals: an ecological overview
1Department of Microbiology, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Microbiological Sciences
|November 1, 1986
Abstract:
Heavy metals are ubiquitous in nature in a wide range of concentrations. They have the potential to influence the ecology of microorganisms in many different ways; as trace elements some are essential for many natural processes but, as pollutants, most can severely disrupt ecosystem functioning.