Dynamics of nitrification and denitrification in root-oxygenated sediments and adaptation of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria to low-oxygen or anoxic habitat

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4100-4107

  Bodelier, Paul L E ^a   Libochant, Jacobus A ^a   Blom, Cees W P M ^b   Laanbroek, Hendrikus J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FRESH WATER;

ADAPTATION; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; LAKE; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXYGENATION; SEDIMENT;

GLYCERIA MAXIMA; NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 0029832336     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.11.4100-4107.1996     Document Type: Article

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