Bacterial growth dynamics, limiting factors, and community diversity in a proposed geological nuclear waste repository environment

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 273-286

  Horn, Joanne M ^a   Masterson, Brett A ^a   Rivera, Angel ^a   Miranda, Anabel ^a   Davis, Michael A ^a   Martin, Sue ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial survival; Microbiological biodiversity; Microbiological growth kinetics; Subsurface ecology; Subsurface nutrients; Vadose ecology; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GROUNDWATER; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIMITING FACTOR; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YUCCA;

EID: 2942535960     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490450490438775     Document Type: Article

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