The active bacterial community in a pristine confined aquifer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Flynn, Theodore M ^a,b   Sanford, Robert A ^a   Santo Domingo, Jorge W ^c   Ashbolt, Nicholas J ^c   Levine, Audrey D ^c,d   Bethke, Craig M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CONFINED AQUIFERS; DISSOLVED SULFIDE; FERROUS IRON; GEOBACTER; IRON REDUCING BACTERIA; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFATE-REDUCER;

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; IRON; POPULATION STATISTICS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONFINED AQUIFER; GEOMICROBIOLOGY; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTUALISM; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFIDE; WELL WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTER; DESULFOBULBUS; DESULFUROMONAS; GEOBACTER; GEOTHRIX;

EID: 84866281593     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011568     Document Type: Article

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