Tracking anthropogenic inputs using caffeine, indicator bacteria, and nutrients in rural freshwater and urban marine systems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 7616-7622

  Peeler, Kelly A ^a   Opsahl, Stephen P ^b   Chanton, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMARKERS; CONTAMINATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DRAINAGE; WASTEWATER; WATERSHEDS;

COASTAL LAGOON; TRIBUTARY CREEKS; WASTEWATER DISCHARGE;

SURFACE WATERS;

AMMONIA; CAFFEINE; FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHATE; RADON; RIVER WATER;

BACTERIA; BIOMARKERS; CONTAMINATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DRAINAGE; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER; WATERSHEDS;

ALKALOID; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOINDICATOR; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NUTRIENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIODEGRADATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLANT TISSUE; RURAL AREA; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WETLAND;

BACTERIA; CAFFEINE; FRESH WATER; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33845759662     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061213c     Document Type: Article

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