Effect of different carbon substrates on nitrate stable isotope fractionation during microbial denitrification

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4861-4868

  Wunderlich, Anja ^a   Meckenstock, Rainer ^a   Einsiedl, Florian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; BACKWARD REACTIONS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CARBON SOURCE; CARBON SUBSTRATES; CELL WALLS; DENTRIFICATION; ELECTRON DONORS; ISOTOPE EFFECT; ISOTOPE ENRICHMENTS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; MICROBIAL DENITRIFICATION; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; NITRATE REDUCTION; NITRATE TRANSPORT; RELATIVE KINETICS; REVERSE REACTIONS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

CARBON; EXPERIMENTS; GROWTH KINETICS; KINETICS; NITRATES; STRAIN; TOLUENE; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ISOTOPES;

ACETIC ACID; BENZOIC ACID; CARBON; NITRATE; NITRITE; OXYGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOLUENE;

BACTERIUM; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MICROCOSM; NITRATE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBSTRATE;

AROMATOLEUM AROMATICUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL REACTION; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; NONHUMAN; THAUERA AROMATICA;

DENITRIFICATION; NITRATES; NITRITES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; THAUERA;

THAUERA AROMATICA;

EID: 84860453891     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204075b     Document Type: Article

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