Significance of microbial communities and Interactions in Safeguarding reactive mine tailings by ecological engineering

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 8201-8208

  Nancucheo, Ivan ^a,b   Johnson, D Barrie ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ARTURO PRAT   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDOPHILIC ALGAE; ACIDOPHILIC BACTERIA; CHEMOLITHOTROPHS; CONTINUOUS INPUT; COPPER AND ZINC; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; MESOCOSMS; METAL MINING; MICRO-ALGAE; MICRO-BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL INOCULATION; MINE TAILINGS; MINE WATERS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; OXIDATIVE DISSOLUTION; PH VALUE; POINT SOURCES; REDOX POTENTIALS; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; ALGAE; ECOLOGY; EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GROUNDWATER; IRON; IRON DEPOSITS; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC CARBON; POPULATION STATISTICS; REDOX REACTIONS; SULFUR;

TAILINGS;

BACTERIAL DNA; IRON DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BACTERIUM; BIOENGINEERING; CATALYSIS; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GROWTH RATE; INOCULATION; MESOCOSM; MICROALGA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; NATURAL ATTENUATION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; PYRITE; TAILINGS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFIDES;

EID: 83255186882     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06155-11     Document Type: Article

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