Estuarine environments biodegradation

Bartholomew GW, FK Pfaender (1983) Influence of spatial and temporal variations on organic pollutant biodegradation rates in an estuarine environment. Appl Environ Microbiol 45 103-109. 

Biodegradation of non-ionic surfactants in estuarine and marine environments... 

Several specific studies have been made on the LAS transport processes in a variety of different estuarine and marine environmental compartments (e.g. LAS removal by biodegradation and/or adsorption), including the flux of LAS from freshwater to a coastal environment [3,6, 29,40]. However, a complete study of LAS behaviour requires knowledge of their primary biodegradation intermediates, SPC, that have been detected in different laboratory tests [15,36,37], Their existence in fresh-water [2,13] and marine water [5] has been demonstrated recently. 

Bourquin AW. 1984. Biodegradation in the estuarine-marine environments and the genetically altered microbe. EPA 600/D-84-051. NTIS PB84-151315. Gulf Breeze, FL U.S. EPA Environmental Research Lab, 35. 

Lee RF, Valkirs AO, Seligman PF. 1989. Importance of micro algae in the biodegradation of tributyltin in estuarine waters. Environ Sci Technol 23 1515-1518. 

Spain, J.C., Pritchard, P., Bourquin, A.W. (1980) Effects of adaptation on biodegradation rates in sediment water cores from estuarine and freshwater environments. Appl. Environ Microbiol. 40, 726-734. 

Boublik, T., Fried, V., Hala, E. (1984) The Vapour Pressures of Pure Substances. 2nd ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Bourquin, A.W. (1984) Biodegradation in the Estuarine-Marine Environments and the Genetically Altered Microbe. EPA-600/D-84-051. NTIS PB84—151 315. U.S. EPA Environmental Research Lab., Gulf Breeze, Florida. 35pp. 

Bobbie, R.J., Morrison, S.J. and White, D.C., 1978. Effects of substrate biodegradability on the mass and activity of the associated estuarine microbiota. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 35 179—184. 

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