Rapid microbial respiration of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in offshore surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Edwards, Bethanie R ^a   Reddy, Christopher M ^a   Camilli, Richard ^a   Carmichael, Catherine A ^a   Longnecker, Krista ^a   Van Mooy, Benjamin A S ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon; Gulf of Mexico; hydrocarbon degradation; microbial respiration; oil spill; petroleum hydrocarbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053521803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/035301     Document Type: Article

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