Determining rates of change and evaluating group-level resiliency differences in hyporheic microbial communities in response to fluvial heavy-metal deposition

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4756-4765

  Feris, Kevin P ^a   Ramsey, Philip W ^a   Rillig, Matthias ^a   Moore, Johnnie N ^a   Gannon, James E ^a   Holben, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DEPOSITION; GELS; HEAVY METALS; RIVERS;

FLUVIAL DEPOSITION; HYPORHEIC MIRCOBIAL COMMUNITIES; METAL TREATMENT;

BACTERIA;

HEAVY METAL;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS, HEAVY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 4143140049     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.8.4756-4765.2004     Document Type: Article

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