Monitoring soil ecosystem recovery following bioremediation of a terrestrial crude oil spill with and without a fertilizer amendment

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-208

  Sublette, Kerry ^a   Jennings, Eleanor ^a   Mehta, Chintan ^a   Duncan, Kathleen ^b   Brokaw, Joshua ^c,f   Todd, Tim ^d   Thoma, Greg ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Arkansas   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Crude oil; Fertilizer; Nematodes; Soil microbiology

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FERTILIZERS; SOILS;

CRUDE OIL SPILLS; HYDROCARBON CONCENTRATIONS; NEMATODE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SOIL ECOSYSTEMS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

OIL SPILLS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FERTILIZERS; OIL; SOIL; SPILLS;

NEMATODA;

EID: 33847060572     PISSN: 15320383     EISSN: 15497887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15320380601166470     Document Type: Article

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