The inoculum effect on the ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in parallel sequential batch reactors

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 4149-4158

  Wittebolle, Lieven ^a   Verstraete, Willy ^a   Boon, Nico ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Microbial community dynamics; Nitrification; Pareto Lorenz curves; Rate of change; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BATCH REACTORS; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; NITRIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY IS; INOCULA; LORENZ CURVES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; PARETO-LORENZ CURVE; RATE OF CHANGE; SEQUENCING; SEQUENTIAL BATCH REACTORS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; NITRIFICATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INOCULATION; MEAT INDUSTRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM (RIVER); WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 69949090477     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.06.034     Document Type: Article

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