Biogeochemical changes induced in uranium mining waste pile samples by uranyl nitrate treatments under anaerobic conditions

Geobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 282-294

  Geissler, A ^a   Merroun, M ^a   Geipel, G ^a   Reuther, H ^a   Selenska Pobell, S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FERRIC ION; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; URANIUM; URANYL NITRATE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINE WASTE; NITRATE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; REDUCTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URANIUM;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MINING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MINING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; URANIUM; URANYL NITRATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; RAHNELLA;

EID: 67650796919     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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