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Bacterial diversity in a contaminated Alpine glacier as determined by culture-based and molecular approaches.
The Science of the total environment - 1 Nov 2014
Cappa Fabrizio, Suciu Nicoleta, Trevisan Marco, Ferrari Susanna, Puglisi Edoardo, Cocconcelli Pier Sandro
Abstract excerpt
Glaciers are important ecosystems, hosting bacterial communities that are adapted to cold conditions and scarcity of available nutrients. Several works focused on the composition of bacterial communities in glaciers and on the long-range atmospheric deposition of pollutants in glaciers, but it is not clear yet if ski resorts can represent a source of point pollution in near-by glaciers, and if these pollutants...
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