Petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation under seasonal freeze-thaw soil temperature regimes in contaminated soils from a sub-arctic site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1061-1066

  Chang, Wonjae ^a   Klemm, Sara ^a   Beaulieu, Chantale ^b   Hawari, Jalal ^b   Whyte, Lyle ^a   Ghoshal, Subhasis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RDNA; AMENDED SOIL; BACTERIAL POPULATION; BIOPILES; BIOSTIMULATION; CONTAMINATED SOILS; COPY NUMBER; CULTURABLE; EX SITU; FREEZE-THAW; FREEZING AND THAWING; FREEZING RATE; HETEROTROPHS; HEXADECANE; HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS; LANDFARMS; LIQUID WATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NON-VOLATILE; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; PILOT SCALE; SESQUITERPANES; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL TEMPERATURE REGIMES; SUB-ARCTIC; SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES; UNSATURATED SOIL;

BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; FREEZING; MICROBIOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REMEDIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); THAWING;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; SESQUITERPENE;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMARKER; BIOREMEDIATION; CADMIUM; DIESEL; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; OXIC CONDITIONS; PETROLEUM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; THAWING; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIODEGRADATION; FREEZE THAWING; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CANADA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FREEZING; HYDROCARBONS; NITROGEN; PETROLEUM; PHOSPHORUS; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TEMPERATURE;

CANADA; NUNAVUT; RESOLUTION ISLAND;

ALKANINDIGES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

EID: 79851474248     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1022653     Document Type: Article

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