Quantification of bacterial populations indigenous to acidic drainage streams

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 135, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 1-21

  Leduc, D ^a   Leduc, L G ^a   Ferroni, G D ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acid drainage; Acidophilic heterotrophs; Iron oxiding acidophiles; Quantitative ecology; Sulfur oxidizing acidophiles; Sulfur oxidizing neutrophiles

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MICROORGANISMS; MINING; ORES; OXIDATION; SULFIDE MINERALS; TAILINGS;

BACTERIAL GROWTH;

DRAINAGE;

AGAROSE; COPPER; FERROUS SULFATE; IRON; MINERAL; NICKEL; SULFIDE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDOPHILY; BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SULFUR;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GROWTH INHIBITION; INCUBATION TIME; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER);

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THIOBACILLUS;

EID: 0036222337     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014778301817     Document Type: Article

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