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Microbial diversity of eolian dust sources from saline lake sediments and biological soil crusts in arid Southern Australia.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 May 2012
Abed Raeid M M, Ramette Alban, Hübner Vera, De Deckker Patrick, de Beer Dirk
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While microbial communities of aerosols have been examined, little is known about their sources. Nutrient composition and microbial communities of potential dust sources, saline lake sediments (SLS) and adjacent biological soil crusts (BSC), from Southern Australia were determined and compared with a previously analyzed dust sample. Multivariate analyses of fingerprinting profiles indicated that the bacterial...
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