Impact of bacterial and fungal processes on 14C-hexadecane mineralisation in weathered hydrocarbon contaminated soil

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 414, Issue , 2012, Pages 585-591

  Adetutu, Eric M ^a   Ball, Andy S ^a   Weber, John ^b,c   Aleer, Samuel ^b,c   Dandie, Catherine E ^b,c   Juhasz, Albert L ^b,c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environ ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

AlkB; DGGE; Hexadecane; Mineralisation

Indexed keywords

ALKB; BACTERIA INHIBITION; BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; CARBON SOURCE; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DGGE; FUNGAL ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GROWTH; FUNGAL PROCESS; HEXADECANE; MINERALISATION; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PHOSPHORUS ADDITION; SODIUM AZIDE; SOIL MICROCOSMS; TWEEN 80;

BIOREMEDIATION; COMPOSTING; FUNGI; MINERALOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

PARAFFINS;

CARBON 14; HEXADECANE; HYDROCARBON; NITROGEN; NYSTATIN; PHOSPHORUS; POLYSORBATE 80; SODIUM AZIDE;

BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; FUNGUS; HYDROCARBON; INHIBITION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL POLLUTION; WEATHERING PROFILE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON SOURCE; COMPOST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROCOSM; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHANEROCHAETE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAWDUST; SOIL POLLUTION; WEATHERING;

ALKANES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NYSTATIN; PETROLEUM; PHANEROCHAETE; PHOSPHORUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSORBATES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SODIUM AZIDE; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHANEROCHAETE; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 84855555158     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.11.044     Document Type: Article

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