Bacterial targets as potential indicators of diesel fuel 2 toxicity in subantarctic soils .
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Bacterial targets as potential indicators of diesel fuel toxicity in subantarctic soils.
Appropriate remediation targets or universal guidelines for polar regions do not currently exist, and a comprehensive understanding of the effects of diesel fuel on the natural microbial populations in polar and subpolar soils is lacking. Our aim was to investigate the response of the bacterial community to diesel fuel and to evaluate if these responses have the potential to be used as indicato...
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