Sentence examples for microbial consumption of from inspiring English sources

We found a strong relationship between microbial consumption of NH4+ or NO3− and gross rates of mineralization or nitrification (R2=0.83 and R2=0.52, respectively).

Slow filtration column experiments also showed that DOC retention during stormwater infiltration through soil and vadose zone was mainly due to aerobic microbial consumption of the biodegradable fraction of DOC.

This paper presents the application of a coupled hydro-bio-geochemical model to evaluate geochemical and microbial consumption of DO in bentonite porewater after backfilling of a HLW repository designed according to the Swedish reference concept.

Contaminated plumes become, however, generally anoxic, due to the low water solubility and rapid microbial consumption of oxygen; under such conditions, benzene has been often described as recalcitrant (Johnson et al. 2003).

Longer groundwater residence times are also associated with anaerobic groundwater conditions related to microbial consumption of oxygen and other electron acceptors (e.g., sulfate, manganese, and iron oxides) in the presence of an organic substrate.

Measurements of H2 oxidation revealed microbial consumption of H2 was equivalent to 1 7% of ethylene produced during the acetylene reduction assay and 11 63% of N2 assimilation on a molar scale.

Petroleum hydrocarbons often result in the degradation of plant-beneficial functions of microbes and high microbial consumption rate of nitrogen during phytoremediation [11], [19].

Hydrological release of carbon from land depends on geologic parent materials, topography, biota, land use, changes in soil chemistry and, microbial consumption or release of OC (Pandey and Pandey 2009).

Gross rates of mineralization, nitrification and microbial consumption were very high and often exceeded net rates by an order of magnitude.

An analysis of 26 glaciers in the European Alps suggests that a significant fraction of glacier organic matter is available for microbial consumption.

Thus any change over time would be the net difference between what was produced by microbial activity associated with the feces (presumably gut flora) and the constituent microbial plankton minus the consumption of NH4+ by plankton and microbes.