Interactions between nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria in gnotobiotic microcosms planted with the emergent macrophyte Glyceria maxima

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-78

  Bodelier, Paul L E ^a   Duyts, Henk ^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

Ammonium; Denitrification; Microscosm; Nitrification; Oxygen; Root

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MACROPHYTE; NITRIFYING BACTERIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROBACTER; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROSOMONAS; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS;

GLYCERIA MAXIMA; NITROBACTER WINOGRADSKYI; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS;

EID: 0031983095     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(97)00083-4     Document Type: Article

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