Ammonia transformations and abundance of ammonia oxidizers in a clay soil underlying a manure pond

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 145-155

  Sher, Yonatan ^a   Baram, Shahar ^a   Dahan, Ofer ^a   Ronen, Zeev ^a   Nejidat, Ali ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Anammox bacteria; Manure ponds

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN;

ABUNDANCE; ACCUMULATION; AMMONIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HETEROTROPHY; LEACHING; MANURE; MICROORGANISM; NITRATE; POND; POREWATER; SEEPAGE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL PROFILE; TRANSFORMATION; VADOSE ZONE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLAY; GENETICS; MANURE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POND; SOIL;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; MANURE; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITRITES; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PONDS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84862336430     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01347.x     Document Type: Article

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