Spatial heterogeneity of dechlorinating bacteria and limiting factors for in situ trichloroethene dechlorination revealed by analyses of sediment cores from a polluted field site

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 444-459

  Dowideit, Kerstin ^a   Scholz Muramatsu, Heidrun ^b   Miethling Graff, Rona ^a   Vigelahn, Lothar ^c   Freygang, Martina ^d   Dohrmann, Anja B ^a   Tebbe, Christoph C ^a  

^a Federal Research Institute of Rural Areas Forestry and Fisheries vTI   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c TUSCH   (Germany)

^d Brandenburgische Boden Gesellschaft für Grundstücksverwaltung und verwertung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dehalococcoides; In situ dechlorination; Natural attenuation; Reductive dechlorination; Spatial heterogeneity; Trichloroethene

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CORE ANALYSIS; DECHLORINATION; NATURAL ATTENUATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SLURRY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ACETOBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOBACTER; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFUROMONAS; TRICHOCOCCUS PASTEURII;

EID: 76049104248     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00820.x     Document Type: Article

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