Microbiology of a wetland ecosystem constructed to remediate mine drainage from a heavy metal mine

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 338, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 53-66

  Hallberg, Kevin B ^a   Johnson, D Barrie ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Acidophiles; Bioremediation; Iron oxidising bacteria; Sulfur oxidising bacteria; Wetland; Wheal Jane

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; BIOREMEDIATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MICROORGANISMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TIN MINES; WETLANDS;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE (AMD); ACIDOPHILLIC MICROBES; CHALCOPHILLIC METALS; IRON OXIDATION; MINE DRAINAGE; PILOT PASSIVE TREATMENT PLANT (PPTP);

MICROBIOLOGY;

HEAVY METAL; IRON; MANGANESE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFUR; SURFACE WATER;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HEAVY METAL; MICROBIOLOGY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WATER TREATMENT;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; COMPOST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FILTER; HALOTHIOBACILLUS NEAPOLITANUS; HETEROTROPHY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POND; POPULATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WETLAND;

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GREAT BRITAIN; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; PHYLOGENY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

HALOTHIOBACILLUS; HALOTHIOBACILLUS NEAPOLITANUS; THIOMONAS; THIOMONAS INTERMEDIA;

EID: 12944298784     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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