Biofilm recovery in a wastewater treatment plant-influenced stream and spatial segregation of ammonia-oxidizing microbial populations

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1054-1064

  Merbt, Stephanie N ^a   Auguet, Jean Christophe ^a   Casamayor, Emilio O ^a   Martí, Eugènia ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79956371461     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.1054     Document Type: Article

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