Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Si Yi ^a   Sudduth, Elizabeth B ^a   Wallenstein, Matthew D ^b   Wright, Justin P ^a   Bernhardt, Emily S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; HEAVY METAL; NITROUS OXIDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENITRIFICATION; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIVER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INSECTS; LINEAR MODELS; METALS, HEAVY; NITRATES; NITROUS OXIDE; NORTH CAROLINA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; URBANIZATION;

EID: 80051607472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022972     Document Type: Article

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