Evaluation of respirometric data: Identification of features that preclude data fitting with existing kinetic expressions

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 88-99

  Smets, Barth F ^a   Jobbágy, Andrea ^b   Cowan, Robert M ^c   Grady Jr , C P Leslie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CELL RESPIRATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 17344389440     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1996.0010     Document Type: Article

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