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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, June 1988, p. 1481-1487
Vol. 54, No. 6
0099-2240/88/061481-07$02.00/0
Adaptation of Phytoplankton-Degrading Microbial Communities to Thermal Reactor Effluent in a New Cooling Reservoir STEVEN A. SCHOENBERG,* RONALD BENNER, PATRICIA SOBECKY, AND ROBERT E. HODSON Department of Microbiology and Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
Received 28 December 1987/Accepted 25 February 1988
In water column and sediment inocula from a nuclear reactor cooling reservoir, natural phytoplankton substrate labeled with 14C was used to determine aerobic and anaerobic mineralization rates for a range of temperatures (25, 40, 55, and 70°C) expected during reactor operation. For experiments that were begun during reactor shutdown, aerobic decomposition occurred at temperatures of
