Meteorological factors had more impact on airborne bacterial communities than air pollutants

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 601-602, Issue , 2017, Pages 703-712

  Zhen, Quan ^a,b   Deng, Ye ^a   Wang, Yaqing ^a,b   Wang, Xiaoke ^a   Zhang, Hongxing ^a   Sun, Xu ^a   Ouyang, Zhiyun ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Abundance; Air pollutants; Airborne bacterial community; Meteorological factors

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISKS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STORMS;

ABUNDANCE; AIR POLLUTANTS; BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICLES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

ABUNDANCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; METEOROLOGY;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR PRESSURE; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMIDITY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANDSTORM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VAPOR PRESSURE; WINTER; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; CHINA; MICROBIOLOGY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; AIR POLLUTANTS; BACTERIA; BEIJING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 85020055901     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.049     Document Type: Article

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