Seasonal population changes of ammonia-oxidizing organisms and their relationship to water quality in a constructed wetland

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 100-107

  Sims, Atreyee ^a   Gajaraj, Shashikanth ^a   Hu, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Constructed wetland; Nitrifying bacterial community structure; Nitrogen removal; QPCR; Tertiary treatment

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; QPCR; TERTIARY TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; BIOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; DEWATERING; EFFLUENTS; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

WETLANDS;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LOW TEMPERATURE; OXIDATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERIZATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT; WETLAND;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84855259700     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.12.021     Document Type: Article

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