Canadian journal of microbiology
Successional stages and inferred functional profiles of bacterial communities under biocrusts in post-mining ecosystems of Western Boreal Quebec.
Gabriel F Peñaloza-Bojacá, Laura Hjartarson, Marta Alonso-Garcia, Juan Carlos Villarreal Aguilar, Line Rochefort, Mélina Guêné-Nanchen
Published: 202610.1139/cjm-2025-0090
Abstract
Mine tailings are inhospitable to plant establishment because of substrate instability, nutrient limitation, heavy metals, and temperature fluctuations at the soil surface. Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) and their associated microbial communities…
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