Extensive bacterial diversity indicates the potential operation of a dynamic micro-ecology within domestic rainwater storage systems

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5206-5215

  Evans, Craig A ^a   Coombes, Peter J ^a   Dunstan, R Hugh ^a   Harrison, Tracey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Culturable prokaryotic diversity; Microbial water quality; Roof harvested rainwater

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; CULTURABLE PROKARYOTIC DIVERSITY; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; FIRMICUTES; MICROBIAL ECO SYSTEM; MICROBIAL WATER QUALITY; NATURAL AQUATIC SYSTEMS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RAINWATER STORAGE TANK; RARE TAXA; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

ECOLOGY; HARVESTING; ROOFS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIOLOGY;

RAIN;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PROKARYOTE; RAINWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTEROIDETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECAL COLIFORM; FIRMICUTES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYLOGENY; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 68049094979     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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