A minimalistic microbial food web in an excavated deep subsurface clay rock
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A minimalistic microbial food web in an excavated deep subsurface clay rock.
Clay rocks are being considered for radioactive waste disposal, but relatively little is known about the impact of microbes on the long-term safety of geological repositories. Thus, a more complete understanding of microbial community structure and function in these environments would provide further detail for the evaluation of the safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste in clay roc...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1574-6941
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiv138