| Acronym | Meaning |
| CI | Chemical Ionization |
| MSD | Mass Selective Detector |
| DAVES | Desorption And Vapor Extraction System |
| PIAS | Photon-counting Image Acquisition System |
| CEQ | Council On Environmental Quality |
| PFGE | Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis |
| SED | Spectral Energy Distribution |
| EROD | Ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (REG 59793-97-4) |
| PLFA | Phospholipid Fatty Acid |
| SOM | Soil Organic Matter |