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  • ...ythrobacter litoralis'' is important in recycling of the inorganic and the organic ...ive without the oxygen as electron acceptor. These bacteria can reduce the organic matters as energy sources and use inorganic matters as electron donors.(1)
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  • ...It was found that the archaeum grew optimally at 100°C and at pH 7.0. Both organic and inorganic compounds served as substrates during aerobic and anaerobic r ...r. The archaeum was also found to grow by dissimilatory nitrate reduction, organic compounds, and thiosulfate. Interestingly, nitrate reduction has only been
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  • ...ulfate-reducing bacteria use sulfate rather than oxygen to oxidize organic matter. Their metabolic products include bicarbonate, a water neutralizing substan ...like leaf compost, municipal compost, woodchips, or sawdust. The organic matter encourages the growth of sulfate-reducing bacteria which reduce sulfate to
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  • <br>Because methanogens can produce energy from only a small range of organic substrates, they generally live in syntrophy with other microbes that produ ...larger streams,” leading to greater loading from water, sediment, organic matter, and nutrients than in natural lakes<ref name=a10/>.
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  • ...y to perform dissimilatory Fe(III) reduction coupled with the oxidation of organic compounds [11]. ...ort growth through Fe(III) or Mn(IV) reduction coupled to the oxidation of organic compounds [11].
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  • ...As for anaerobic conditions, the bacterium metabolizes glucose to produce organic acids such as acetic acid and formic acid. In other words, fermenting take ...lant and animal matter. The bacterium found did utilize glucose and other organic acids, possibly for energy, from the humus. (9)
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  • ...ewater wastewater]. Wastewater contains high concentrations of degradable organic material which, when processed, produce valuable [http://en.wikipedia.org/w Digestion of organic matter in wastewater by methanogenic anaerobic methods is popular because as compa
    31 KB (4,483 words) - 04:33, 14 April 2015
  • ...Kasalicky et al. 2013, have had the ability to increase biomass on simple organic acids and sugars. ...to higher trophic levels as well as help in recycling of dissolved organic matter in aquatic system.
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  • ...in the vegetation and dead wood of the rainforest, not the soils. Organic matter decay occurs so rapidly in the litter of the forest floor that barely any n ...wood, dung, carcasses, etc). In the most productive areas, it is simply a matter of minutes before a pile of dung is found and used by different insect spec
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  • ...iration Soil respiration] is a biological process in microbes that convert organic carbon to atmospheric CO2 and is considered to be one of the largest global ...urnal/v440/n7081/full/nature04514.html [6]]. In the case of decomposition, organic carbon substrates are often complex and require a high temperature activati
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  • ...es have. One of the differences is that Pelobacter species can not oxidize organic electron donors completely into carbon dioxide. Also, this species is also ...ron acceptors, such as iron oxides. They are not only important in organic matter degradation but also in nutrient cycling in sediments. Conducting-probe ato
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  • ...gens because food preparation surfaces are usually in contact with organic matter such as milk which is a good source of nutrients for microorganisms, with i ...present of bacteria. On food preparation surfaces, bacteria, inorganic and organic materials get adsorb on the surface in minutes of substratum immersion into
    19 KB (2,850 words) - 20:17, 26 August 2010
  • ...rocks or sediments. [13] Soil organic matter (SOM) consists of all of the organic components of a soil, including living biomass, decomposing tissue, and ful ...The amount of CEC in soil is highly dependent on the texture and organic matter of the soil. The high surface area and negative charge of clay allows it to
    20 KB (3,149 words) - 05:33, 25 March 2016
  • ...), compared to the 30,000 human genes. It gains energy from consuming dead organic carbon in its natural habitat, which is a low nutrient environment. From th ...not affect the microbe’s feeding tendencies. By feeding off the dissolved organic carbon, ''P. ubique'' produced nutrients needed by the algae to grow, from
    18 KB (2,577 words) - 15:51, 16 September 2010
  • ...e role of microbes, we hope to build a better nexus of information between organic input decay and SOM formation. So, in the next section we discuss the impor =='''Decomposition of Organic Residues'''==
    51 KB (7,564 words) - 04:07, 5 April 2018
  • ...o longer needing to engulf microbes to aid in the decomposition of organic matter. ...ronment, this would be when the <i>Physarum</i> emerges from under organic matter such as leaf litter on the forest floor.<ref>Think Single-Celled Organisms
    16 KB (2,294 words) - 02:45, 12 December 2020
  • ...n humans but also in mammals. The bacterium is disposed of through faecal matter and its presence in rivers, soils and foods are used as an indicator of fae ...s. This is also true in the carbon cycle where bacteria decompose organic matter returning carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere. Other essential elements
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  • ...es – namely, interstitial waters throughout the sediment are oxic, and the organic flux from the waters to the sea floor is extremely low. <ref name= two/> Th ...about the sediment column. The sediment in the SPG has some of the lowest organic burial rates in the ocean, as well as what researchers have called some of
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  • ...ugh, they do not persist in this form, returning to the amoeboid form in a matter of hours. The return to amoeboid form is possibly due to the fact that the ...wastewater treatment by participating in anaerobic degradation of organic matter. This is a complex process where microbial organisms, along with biochemica
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  • ...lowed by a much deeper layer of continuous saturated soil with low organic matter and high saline conditions. These conditions in association with a monotyp ...Soils are often anoxic immediately below the surface due to high organic matter and abundant moisture for microorganisms. Roots and burrowing invertebrate
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