Local environmental pollution strongly influences culturable bacterial aerosols at an urban aquatic superfund site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 10926-10933

  Dueker, M Elias ^a,b   O'Mullan, Gregory D ^a,b   Juhl, Andrew R ^a   Weathers, Kathleen C ^c   Uriarte, Maria ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; ACTINOBACTERIA; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BACTERIAL AEROSOLS; BACTERIAL ISOLATES; COASTAL AEROSOLS; COASTAL SITES; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CULTURABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; LOCAL DEPOSITION; NEW YORK; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNITS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUPERFUND SITES; TAXONOMIC STRUCTURE; URBAN COMMUNITY;

AEROSOLS; HEAVY METALS; HYDROCARBONS; REMEDIATION; RNA; SEWAGE; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

URBAN GROWTH;

HEAVY METAL; HYDROCARBON; RNA 16S; SURFACE WATER;

AERATION; AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FALLOUT; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SUPERFUND; WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AERATION; AEROSOL; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOUT; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEWAGE; SHEWANELLA; SOIL POLLUTION; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VIBRIO; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AEROSOLS; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; BACTERIA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HAZARDOUS WASTE;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84867914847     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301870t     Document Type: Article

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