Regime shift in sandy beach microbial communities following Deepwater Horizon oil spill remediation efforts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Engel, Annette Summers ^a,b   Gupta, Axita A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CAMPYLOBACTERALES; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENTEROBACTERIALES; FECES MICROFLORA; FIRMICUTES; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANOSPIRILLALES; OIL SPILL; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RHODOBACTERALES; RHODOSPIRILLALES; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TILLAGE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY;

SEA WATER;

ALABAMA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LOUISIANA; MEXICO; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; SEAWATER;

EID: 84904565879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102934     Document Type: Article

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