A new biodegradation prediction model specific to petroleum hydrocarbons

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1847-1860

  Howard, Philip ^a   Meylan, William ^a   Aronson, Dallas ^a   Stiteler, William ^a   Tunkel, Jay ^a   Comber, Michael ^b   Parkerton, Thomas F ^b  

^a SYRACUSE RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Hydrocarbon; Petroleum; Prediction; Structure activity relationships

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIODEGRADATION PROBABILITY PROGRAM; MOLECULAR FRAGMENTS; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; RING SYSTEMS;

HYDROCARBONS;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; CYCLOALKANE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE;

BIODEGRADATION; MODEL; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; HALF-LIFE; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PETROLEUM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 23744478636     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-453R.1     Document Type: Article

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