Nitrogen removal and ammonia-oxidising bacteria in a vertical flow constructed wetland treating inorganic wastewater

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 587-594

  Domingos, Sergio S ^a   Dallas, Stewart ^a   Skillman, Lucy ^a   Felstead, Stephanie ^b   Ho, Goen ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSBP Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

amoA; Constructed wetland; Nitrification; Nitrogen removal; T RFLP; Vertical flow

Indexed keywords

AMOA; BACTERIAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS; CLONE LIBRARY; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; GROUP-SPECIFIC PRIMERS; INORGANIC WASTEWATER; MONOOXYGENASES; N REMOVAL; NITRIFIED EFFLUENTS; NITROSOMONAS; SATURATED SURFACES; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; T-RFLP; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; VERTICAL FLOW CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; VERTICAL FLOW WETLANDS; VERTICAL FLOWS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AMMONIA; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; EFFLUENTS; GENES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

WETLANDS;

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; NITROGEN; RUNOFF; STORM WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

BACTERIUM; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; POLYMORPHISM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL MIXING; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

AMMONIA OXIDISING BACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CRENARCHAEOTA; INORGANIC WASTEWATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAND; SEDIMENT; SLUDGE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; NITROGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WETLANDS;

AUSTRALIA; KWINANA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONAS SP.; NITROSOSPIRA SP.;

EID: 80051488291     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.565     Document Type: Article

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