Microplastic is an abundant and distinct microbial habitat in an urban river

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 11863-11871

  McCormick, Amanda ^a   Hoellein, Timothy J ^a   Mason, Sherri A ^b   Schluep, Joseph ^a   Kelly, John J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; LAKES; OCEAN HABITATS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIAL ASSEMBLAGES; ECOLOGICAL EFFECT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; MICROPLASTIC PARTICLES; RECENT RESEARCHES; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT;

RIVERS;

ORGANIC MATTER; PLASTIC; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; EFFLUENT; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PLASTIC; RIVER; URBAN AREA; WASTEWATER; WATER COLUMN; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; CAMPYLOBACTERACEAE; CELL DENSITY; COMAMONADACEAE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MARINE SPECIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORAXELLACEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; RHODOCYCLACEAE; RIVER; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAXONOMY; THIOTRICHACEAE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHICAGO; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; CHICAGO; CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; PLASTICS; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84908147807     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503610r     Document Type: Article

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