Sunlight, season, snowmelt, storm, and source affect E. coli populations in an artificially ponded stream

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 390, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 448-455

  Whitman, Richard L ^a   Przybyla Kelly, Katarzyna ^a   Shively, Dawn A ^a   Nevers, Meredith B ^a   Byappanahalli, Muruleedhara N ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indicator bacteria; Rainfall; Remediation; Snowmelt; Sunlight reduction; Wetland

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; RAIN; REMEDIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; WETLANDS;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; INDICATOR BACTERIA; SNOWMELT; SUNLIGHT REDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

RAIN; SNOW; STORM WATER;

ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROGRAPH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RNA; SNOWMELT; STORM; STREAM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COLIPHAGE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; STREAM (RIVER); SUMMER; SUNLIGHT; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WETLAND; WINTER;

COLIPHAGES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAIN; RIVERS; SEASONS; SNOW; SUNLIGHT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 37149027085     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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