Quantitative response relationships between nitrogen transformation rates and nitrogen functional genes in a tidal flow constructed wetland under C/N ratio constraints

Water Research

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-41

  Zhi, Wei ^a,b   Ji, Guodong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

C N ratio; Constructed wetland (CW); Functional gene; Nitrogen transformation; Quantitative response relationship; Tidal flow

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; GENES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

C/N RATIO; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; FUNCTIONAL GENES; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; QUANTITATIVE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; TIDAL FLOW;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; RNA 16S; WATER POLLUTANT;

AERATION; AMMONIA; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; OXIDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DENITRIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANALYSIS; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84904255296     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.06.035     Document Type: Article

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