Current knowledge of microbial community structures in landfills and its cover soils

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 961-969

  Semrau, Jeremy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidogens; Ammonia oxidizing microorganisms; Celluloytic microorganisms; Landfill; Methanogenesis; Methanotroph

Indexed keywords

ACIDOGENS; CELLULOYTIC MICROORGANISMS; COVER SOIL; ENERGY GENERATIONS; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOTROPHS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; MICROBIAL PROCESS; WASTE HANDLING;

AMMONIA; BYPRODUCTS; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; ENERGY CONVERSION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANE; MICROORGANISMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

LAND FILL;

ACETOGENIN; AMMONIA; CELLULOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; METHANE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; EMISSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GREENHOUSE GAS; KNOWLEDGE; LANDFILL; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TYPE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ACETOVIBRIO; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; CHLAMYDIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COVER SOIL; FIBROBACTER; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLYSIS; LANDFILL; METHANOGEN; METHANOTROPH; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEOCALLIMASTIGALES; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; SOIL; SPIROCHAETES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CELLULOSE; METHANE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79952537952     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-3024-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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