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Measurement of bioaccessibility of organic pollutants in soil / Laura McAllister and Kirk T. Semple -- Heavy metal bioavailability and bioaccessibility in soil / John Richard Dean -- Addressing PCR biases in environmental microbiology studies / Rita Sipos ... [et al.] -- MPN- and real-time-based PCR mehods for the quantification of alkane monooxygenase homologous genes (alkB) in environmental samples / Alfredo Pérez-de-Mora, Stephan Schulz, and Michael Schloter -- Application of fingerprinting molecular methods in bioremediation studies / Dimitrios G. Karpouzas and Brajesh K. Singh -- Using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis to assess microbial community structure in compost systems / Soni M. Tiquia -- Combination fluorescence in situ hybridization with staining techniques for cell viability and accumulation of PHA and polyP in microorganisms in complex microbial systems / Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Caroline Kragelund, and Per Halkjær Nielsen -- Ecophysiological analysis of microorganisms in complex microbial systems by combination of fluorescence in situ hybridization with extracellular staining techniques / Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Caroline Kragelund, and Per Halkjær Nielsen -- Applications of DNA-stable isotope probing in bioremediation studies / Yin Chen, Jyotsna Vohra, and J. Colin Murrell --Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis : discovering biomolecules for environmental bioremediation / Om V. Singh and Anuj K. Chandel -- The application of molecular techniques to the study of wastewater treatment systems / Irena Wojnowska-Baryła, Agnieszka Cydzik-Kwiatkowska, and Magdalena Zielińska -- Plasmid-mediated bioaugmentation of wastewater microbial communities in a laboratory-scale bioreactor / Stephan Bathe and Martina Hausner -- The role of decision support for bioremediation strategies, exemplified by hydrocarbons for in site and ex situ procedures / Elizabeth E. Diplock ... [et al.] -- Monitored natural attenuation / Kirsten S. Jorgensen, Jani M. Salminen, and Katarina Björklöf -- Application of bioassays for the ecotoxicity assessment of contaminated soils / Maria D. Fernández, Mar Babín, and José V. Tarazona -- Community-level physiological profiling / Kela P. Weber and Raymond L. Legge.

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