This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2002CB412307); the Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (863) of China (No. 2002AA601011) ;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40371102).
The characterization of microbial communities of different depth sediment samples was examined by a culture-independent method and compared with physicochemical parameters, those are organic matter (OM), total nitro...