Dynamics of specific ammonia-oxidizing bacterial populations and nitrification in response to controlled shifts of ammonium concentrations in wastewater

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2183-2191

  Almstrand, R ^a   Lydmark, P ^a   Lindgren, P E ^b   Sorensson F ^a   Hermansson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Biofilm; FISH; Nitrification; Nitrosomonas europaea; Nitrosomonas oligotropha; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; AOB POPULATION DYNAMICS; BACTERIAL POPULATION; BIOFILM CARRIERS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTORS; NITRIFICATION PROCESS; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; TRICKLING FILTER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENITRIFICATION; FISH; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NITRIFICATION; PILOT PLANTS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NITRIFICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRICKLING FILTER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BIOMASS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA;

EID: 84874118752     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4047-7     Document Type: Article

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