Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7073-7081

  Meckenstock, Rainer U ^a   Elsner, Martin ^h   Griebler, Christian ^h   Lueders, Tillmann ^h   Stumpp, Christine ^h   Aamand, Jens ^b   Agathos, Spiros N ^c   Albrechtsen, Hans Jørgen ^d   Bastiaens, Leen ^e   Bjerg, Poul L ^d   Boon, Nico ^g   Dejonghe, Winnie ^e   Huang, Wei E ⁱ   Schmidt, Susanne I ^j   Smolders, Erik ^k   Sørensen, Sebastian R ^b   Springael, Dirk ^k   Van Breukelen, Boris M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BIODEGRADATION; CLEANUP; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PLUME; REDOX CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; ENZYME KINETICS; MASS ACTION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLUME; STEADY STATE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; ZONATION; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; ELECTRON; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANT;

GROUND WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ELECTRONS; GROUNDWATER; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84934986610     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00715     Document Type: Article

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