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Table 1 Physico-chemical parameters of the water in the Río Tinto sampling site.

From: Environmental transcriptome analysis reveals physiological differences between biofilm and planktonic modes of life of the iron oxidizing bacteria Leptospirillum spp. in their natural microbial community

 

2004

2005

pH

1.8 ± 0.02

1.82 ± 0.07

T (°C)

21 ± 0.5

20.1 ± 0.5

Conductivity (mS Cm-1)

17.63 + 0.09

27.3 ± 0.01

Salinity

10.45 + 0.05

16.65 ± 0.05

O2 (% sat.)

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13.1 ± 3

SO4= (mg L-1)

70200 ± 220

128000 ± 410

Fe tot (mg L-1)

13970 ± 230

19540 ± 2680

Fe+2/Fe+3

0.034

0.052

Formate, HCOO- (mg L-1)

2.8 (0.06 mM)

ULD

Acetate, CH3COO- (mg L-1)

82.68 (1.36 mM)

ULD

  1. Other acetate measurements: 3.54 mM on June 2006, or 0.34 mM on July 2008.
  2. ULD, under the limit of detection.