Development of a "smart" tracer for the assessment of microbiological activity and sediment-water interaction in natural waters: The resazurin-resorufin system

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Haggerty, Roy ^a   Argerich, Alba ^b   Martí, Eugènia ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; ORGANIC CARBON; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; IRREVERSIBLE REDUCTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOCHEMICAL DECAY; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE;

SEDIMENTS;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SORPTION; TRACER;

EID: 79551657884     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006670     Document Type: Article

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