Microbial diversity in a pyrite-rich tailings impoundment (Carnoulès, France)

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 249-257

  Bruneel, Odile ^a   Duran, Robert ^b   Koffi, Kouadio ^a   Casiot, Corinne ^a   Fourçans, Aude ^b   Elbaz Poulichet, Françoise ^a   Personné, Jean Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Arsenic; Microbial diversity; Mine tailings; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINE WASTE; PYRITE; TAILINGS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOSARCINA VARIABILIS; THIOBACILLUS; THIOMONAS;

EID: 21344447021     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490450590947805     Document Type: Article

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