Biodegradability and Molecular Composition of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in Urban Stormwater Runoff and Outflow Water from a Stormwater Retention Pond

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3391-3398

  Lusk, Mary G ^a   Toor, Gurpal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADABILITY; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN; RUNOFF; STORM SEWERS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; FOURIER TRANSFORM ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; STORMWATER RETENTION; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN STORMWATER RUNOFF;

STORMS;

AMINOSUGAR; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; LAKE WATER; LIPID; ORGANONITROGEN DERIVATIVE; POND OUTFLOW WATER; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; STORM WATER; SUGAR; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NITROGEN; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE;

ALGAL BLOOM; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; EUTROPHICATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POND; RUNOFF; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEACHING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POND; RUNOFF; VEGETATION; ANALYSIS; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; CITY; FLORIDA; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES;

ALGAE;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CITIES; FLORIDA; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PONDS;

EID: 84962430830     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05714     Document Type: Article

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