Groundwater-surface water mixing shifts ecological assembly processes and stimulates organic carbon turnover

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Stegen, James C ^a   Fredrickson, James K ^a   Wilkins, Michael J ^b   Konopka, Allan E ^a   Nelson, William C ^a   Arntzen, Evan V ^a   Chrisler, William B ^a   Chu, Rosalie K ^a   Danczak, Robert E ^b   Fansler, Sarah J ^a   Kennedy, David W ^a   Resch, Charles T ^a   Tfaily, Malak ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; SURFACE WATER; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DNA; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYPORHEIC ZONE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC CARBON; STOCHASTICITY; TURNOVER;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; TURNOVER TIME; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; WASHINGTON; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASHINGTON; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84963682914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11237     Document Type: Article

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