Impact of overlying water velocity on ammonium uptake by benthic biofilms

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 570-578

  Arnon, Shai ^a   Yanuka, Keren ^a   Nejidat, Ali ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Biogeochemistry; Hyporheic zone; Nitrification; Nutrient dynamics; Water velocity

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC NITRIFICATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; BEDFORMS; FLOW REGIMES; HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; MASS-TRANSFER PROCESS; NEAR STOICHIOMETRIC; NITRIFICATION ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OVERLYING WATER; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; PH VALUE; TOTAL BIOMASS; TRANSITION FROM LAMINAR TO TURBULENT FLOWS; WATER VELOCITIES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; MICROELECTRODES; NITRIFICATION; VELOCITY;

BIOFILMS;

AMMONIUM; BENTHOS; BIOFILM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW VELOCITY; FLUME EXPERIMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPORHEIC ZONE; LABORATORY METHOD; LAMINAR FLOW; NITRIFICATION; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER FLOW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84872681725     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9239     Document Type: Article

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