Recovery of microbially mediated processes in soil augmented with a pentachlorophenol-mineralizing bacterium

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1912-1917

  Colores, Gregory M ^a   Schmidt, Steven K ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Methane oxidation; Nitrification; Pentachlorophenol; Sphingomonas chlorophenolica strain RA2

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONTAMINATION; FLUXES; METHANE; NITRIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REMOVAL; SOILS;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PENTACHLOROPHENOL (PCP); SOIL CONTAMINATION; SOIL MICROCOSMS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMMONIA; CARBON; METHANE; NITROGEN; PENTACHLOROPHENOL;

CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; PCP; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON CYCLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; METHANOGENESIS; MICROCOSM; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS CHLOROPHENOLICA;

AMMONIA; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPHINGOMONAS;

SPHINGOBIUM CHLOROPHENOLICUM;

EID: 23744497927     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-485R.1     Document Type: Article

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