Impact of biostimulated redox processes on metal dynamics in an iron-rich creek soil of a former uranium mining area

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-183

  Burkhardt, Eva Maria ^a   Akob, Denise M ^a,b   Bischoff, Sebastian ^a   Sitte, Jana ^a   Kostka, Joel E ^b   Banerjee, Dipanjan ^c,d   Scheinost, Andreas C ^c,d   Küsel, Kirsten K ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVERSE COMMUNITY; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACTER; GERMANY; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MINING DISTRICT; POREWATER CONCENTRATIONS; PROTEOBACTERIA; REDOX PROCESS; REDUCTIVE DISSOLUTION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOIL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL MICROCOSMS; SOIL SLURRY; SOLID-PHASE; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTING PROCESS; URANIUM MINING;

DISSOLUTION; ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METALS; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON COMPOUNDS; METALS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; SOILS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; ZINC;

METAL RECOVERY;

ARSENIC; COBALT; IRON; NICKEL; STABLE ISOTOPE; ZINC;

HEAVY METAL; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; POREWATER; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RADIONUCLIDE; SLURRY; SOIL POLLUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; URANIUM MINE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; IRON; MINING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; URANIUM;

GERMANY; RONNEBURG; THURINGIA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; GEOBACTER;

EID: 75349110052     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902038e     Document Type: Article

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