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Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Polluted Soils in Extreme Temperature Environments

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Book cover Applied Bioremediation and Phytoremediation

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 1))

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Extreme environments are colonized by extremophilic organisms which have specifically adapted to survive, grow and multiply under environmental extremes, such as extreme of temperature, pH, salinity, nutrients, etc. Temperature plays a significant role in bioremediation processes’. This chapter describes bioremediation treatments of cold soils and desert soils contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons.

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  1. Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

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  2. Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

    Owen P. Ward (Professor of Microbial Biotechnology) (Professor of Microbial Biotechnology)

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Margesin, R. (2004). Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Polluted Soils in Extreme Temperature Environments. In: Singh, A., Ward, O.P. (eds) Applied Bioremediation and Phytoremediation. Soil Biology, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05794-0_10

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