Bacterial community dynamics in full-scale activated sludge bioreactors: Operational and ecological factors driving community assembly and performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Valentín Vargas, Alexis ^a,b   Toro Labrador, Gladys ^a   Massol Deyá, Arturo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOREACTOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGE BIOREACTOR; ECOLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SLUDGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; BIOREACTORS; ECOSYSTEM; SEWAGE; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84864556074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042524     Document Type: Article

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