Distribution and stability of sulfate-reducing prokaryotic and hydrogenotrophic methanogenic assemblages in nutrient-impacted regions of the Florida Everglades

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2695-2704

  Castro, Hector ^a   Newman, Susan ^a,b   Reddy, K R ^a   Ogram, Andrew ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b EVERGLADES DIVISION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENZYMES; MICROORGANISMS; NUTRITION; PHOSPHORUS; VEGETATION;

FAUNA; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGES; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHORUS LOADING;

GENES;

MESNA; METHYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE GENE; PHOSPHORUS; SULFITE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; COENZYME; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUTROPHICATION; FAUNA; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROFLORA; NUTRIENT LOADING; PROKARYOTE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL ANALYSIS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFATES;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 18444391808     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2695-2704.2005     Document Type: Article

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