Sulfate availability drives divergent evolution of arsenic speciation during microbially mediated reductive transformation of schwertmannite

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2221-2229

  Burton, Edward D ^a   Johnston, Scott G ^a   Kraal, Peter ^a   Bush, Richard T ^a   Claff, Salirian ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC SPECIATION; ARSENIC SPECIES; ARSENIC SULFIDE; CO-PRECIPITATED; DIVERGENT EVOLUTION; MACKINAWITE; OXYANIONS; REDUCING CONDITIONS; REDUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS; RICH CONDITIONS; SCHWERTMANNITE; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SOLID-PHASE;

EXPERIMENTS; EXTENDED X RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; IRON COMPOUNDS; IRON ORES; SEDIMENTS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; FERROUS ION; FERROUS SULFATE; SULFATE;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GOETHITE; MACKINAWITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REDUCTION; SCHWERTMANNITE; SIDERITE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE; TRANSFORMATION;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; EVOLUTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; SOLID; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFATES; WATER;

EID: 84874641869     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303867t     Document Type: Article

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