Ammonia adsorption and nitritation in sediments derived from the Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1653-1660

  Wang, Hongyuan ^a,b   Shen, Zhenyao ^a   Guo, Xuejun ^a   Niu, Junfeng ^a   Kang, Bin ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia adsorption; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Nitritation; Nitrosomonas nitrosa; Suspended particles; Three Gorges Reservoir

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA ADSORPTION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; NITRITATION; NITROSOMONAS; SUSPENDED PARTICLES; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

AMMONIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ISOMERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GAS ADSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; NITRIFICATION; NITRITE; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYTOMASS; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS NITROSA;

EID: 77953646791     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0299-7     Document Type: Article

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