Competition between two nitrite-oxidizing bacterial populations: A model for studying the impact of wastewater treatment plant discharge on nitrification in sediment

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-23

  Féray, Christine ^a   Montuelle, Bernard ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Batch study; Nitrite oxidation; Nitrobacter; Sterile sediment; Strains competitiveness; Wastewater treatment plant effluent

Indexed keywords

NITRITE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EFFLUENT; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; ENZYME INDUCTION; HETEROTROPHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INCUBATION TIME; MIXOTROPHY; NITRIFICATION; NITROBACTER; NITROBACTER HAMBURGENSIS; NITROBACTER WYNOGRADSKYI; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUBSPECIES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROBACTER; NITROBACTER HAMBURGENSIS;

EID: 0036804530     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(02)00309-4     Document Type: Article

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