Effect of high ammonia loads emitted from poultry-manure digestion on nitrification activity and nitrifier-community structure in a compost biofilter

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 140-147

  Posmanik, Roy ^a   Gross, Amit ^a   Nejidat, Ali ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ammonia biofiltration; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Nitrification; Nitrite oxidizing bacteria

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOFILTERS; COMPOSTING; MANURES;

AMMONIA BIOFILTRATION; AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; COMPOST-BASED BIOFILTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES; NITRITE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; POTENTIAL NITRIFICATION;

NITRIFICATION;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; AMMONIA; BIOFILTRATION; BIOGENIC EMISSION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPOST; DIGESTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MANURE; NITRIFICATION; POULTRY; PROKARYOTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 84888188372     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.10.033     Document Type: Article

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