Bacterial Community Profiling of Plastic Litter in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 9629-9638

  De Tender, Caroline A ^a,b   Devriese, Lisa I ^a   Haegeman, Annelies ^a   Maes, Sara ^a   Ruttink, Tom ^a   Dawyndt, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; BACTERIA; ELASTOMERS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; SEAWATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BACTERIAL COMPOSITION; COLONIZATION PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS;

PLASTICS;

PLASTIC; RESIN; SEA WATER; RIBOSOME DNA;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PIGMENT; PLASTIC; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BELGIAN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; MARINE PLASTIC LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NORTH SEA; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEASHORE; WASTE; BACTERIUM; BELGIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; BELGIUM; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; NORTH SEA; PLASTICS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84939526220     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01093     Document Type: Article

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