Dynamics of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in relation to nitrification along simulated dissolved oxygen gradient in sediment–water interface of the Jiulong river estuarine wetland, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2225-2237

  Luo, Zhuanxi ^a   Qiu, Zhaozheng ^a,c   Wei, Qunshan ^a   Du Laing, Gijs ^b   Zhao, Yanling ^c   Yan, Changzhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abundance; Ammonia oxidation; Community structure; Nitrification; Oxygen; Redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DISSOLUTION; ESTUARIES; NITRIFICATION; OXYGEN; REDUNDANCY; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEA (AOA); AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PRINCIPAL COORDINATES ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MANGROVE; MUDFLAT; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; RIVER; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; WETLAND;

CHINA; FUJIAN; JIULONG RIVER;

EID: 84907090959     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3128-6     Document Type: Article

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