Abundance, Composition and Activity of Ammonia Oxidizer and Denitrifier Communities in Metal Polluted Rice Paddies from South China

• Yuan Liu,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Yongzhuo Liu,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Yuanjun Ding,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Jinwei Zheng,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Tong Zhou,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Genxing Pan ,

  * E-mail: gxpan@njau.edu.cn

  Affiliations Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, Center of Ecosystem Carbon Sink and Environment Remediation, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, Linan, Hangzhou, China

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• David Crowley,

  Affiliation Department of Environment Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Lianqing Li,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Jufeng Zheng,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Xuhui Zhang,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Xinyan Yu,

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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• Jiafang Wang

  Affiliation Institute of Resource, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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