Natural Attenuation of Septic System Nitrogen by Anammox

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 541-553

  Robertson, W D ^a   Moore, T A ^a   Spoelstra, J ^a,b   Li, L ^a   Elgood, R J ^a   Clark, I D ^c   Schiff, S L ^a   Aravena, R ^a   Neufeld, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; ANAMMOX; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; BACTERIAL POPULATION; GROUNDWATER PLUMES; ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT; ISOTOPICALLY ENRICHED; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NITROGEN ATTENUATION; ONTARIO; SEPTIC SYSTEM; WATER TABLES;

DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; DRINKING WATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PLUME; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE; SUBOXIC CONDITIONS; WATER TABLE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLANCTOMYCETALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANAEROBIOSIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANCTOMYCETALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS JETTENIA; PLANCTOMYCETALES;

EID: 84863305677     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00857.x     Document Type: Article

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