The response of river nitrification to changes in wastewater treatment (The case of the lower Seine River downstream from Paris)

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 351-364

  Aissa Grouz, Najla ^a   Garnier, Josette ^a,b   Billen, Gilles ^a,b   Mercier, Benjamin ^a   Martinez, Anunciacion ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Domestic effluents; Nitrification; Nitrifying potential activities; Nitrogen contamination; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIUM; BIOMASS; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMESTIC WASTE; EFFLUENT; NITRATE; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITRITE; RIVER SYSTEM; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; PARIS; SEINE RIVER [FRANCE]; VILLE DE PARIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84956741750     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: 2100000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2015031     Document Type: Article

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