Seasonal variations in microbial populations and environmental conditions in an extreme acid mine drainage environment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3627-3632

  Edwards, Katrina J ^a,b   Gihring, Thomas M ^a   Banfield, Jillian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BACTERIUM; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GEOGRAPHY; LEPTOSPIRA; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERROOXIDANS; THIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS;

EID: 0032795447     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3627-3632.1999     Document Type: Article

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