Effect of herbicide concentration and organic and inorganic nutrient amendment on the mineralization of mecoprop, 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T in soil and aquifer samples

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-93

  de Lipthay, Julia R ^a   Sørensen, Sebastian R ^a   Aamand, Jens ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biostimulation; Groundwater aquifer; Natural attenuation; Phenoxyalkanoic acid herbicides

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GROWTH KINETICS; HERBICIDES; NUTRIENTS; SOILS;

BIOSTIMULATION; GROUNDWATER AQUIFERS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PHENOXYALKANOIC ACID HERBICIDES;

AQUIFERS;

HERBICIDE; MECOPROP;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; HERBICIDE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NUTRIENT; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DETOXIFICATION; EXPERIMENTATION; INORGANIC NUTRIENT; KINETICS; LABORATORY; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC NUTRIENT; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS;

2,4,5-TRICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 2-METHYL-4-CHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; ADSORPTION; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HERBICIDES; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34247893820     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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