Fertilization stimulates anaerobic fuel degradation of antarctic soils by denitrifying microorganisms

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2011-2017

  Powell, Shane M ^a   Ferguson, Susan H ^b   Snape, Ian ^b   Siciliano, Steven D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENZYMES; QUARTZ; REACTION KINETICS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEPOSITION KINETICS; OOCYSTS; STAGNATION POINTS;

MACROMOLECULES;

BENZOYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; FUEL; HEXADECANE; HYDROCARBON; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENZYMES; MACROMOLECULES; QUARTZ; REACTION KINETICS;

DEGRADATION; DENITRIFICATION; PETROLEUM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; DENITRIFICATION; EVAPORATION; EXPOSURE; MICROCOSM; OIL SPILL; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TREATMENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AEROBIOSIS; ALKANES; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FUEL OILS; HYDROCARBONS; NITRATES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; OXYGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TOLUENE;

ANTARCTICA; CASEY STATION; EAST ANTARCTICA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM;

EID: 33645241779     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es051818t     Document Type: Article

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