Treatment performance of small-scale vermifilter for domestic wastewater and its relationship to earthworm growth, reproduction and enzymatic activity

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 7513-7520

  Xing, Meiyan ^a   Li, Xiaowei ^a   Yang, Jian ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Earthworm; Enzymatic activity; Population dynamics; Treatment efficiency; Vermifilter; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CATALASE; CELLULASE; PROTEINASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARTHWORM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FILTRATION; GROWTH; LUMBRIFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; VERMIFILTER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78549278051     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/ajb10.811     Document Type: Article

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