Bioremediation by inoculation with microorganisms

Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 289-313

  Edgehill, Richard U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative modeling approaches; Deterministic approaches; Heterogeneous soil; Moment analysis; Residence time distributions; Solute transport modeling; Stochastic models; Stream tube model; Transfer functions; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102609881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr37.c12     Document Type: Chapter

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