Precipitation pulse size effects on Sonoran Desert soil microbial crusts

Oecologia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Cable ◽  
Travis E. Huxman
2017 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Scola ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Ramond ◽  
Aline Frossard ◽  
Olivier Zablocki ◽  
Evelien M. Adriaenssens ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 5225-5235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred A. Rainey ◽  
Keren Ray ◽  
Margarida Ferreira ◽  
Bridget Z. Gatz ◽  
M. Fernanda Nobre ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The ionizing-radiation-resistant fractions of two soil bacterial communities were investigated by exposing an arid soil from the Sonoran Desert and a nonarid soil from a Louisiana forest to various doses of ionizing radiation using a 60Co source. The numbers of surviving bacteria decreased as the dose of gamma radiation to which the soils were exposed increased. Bacterial isolates surviving doses of 30 kGy were recovered from the Sonoran Desert soil, while no isolates were recovered from the nonarid forest soil after exposure to doses greater than 13 kGy. The phylogenetic diversities of the surviving culturable bacteria were compared for the two soils using 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. In addition to a bacterial population that was more resistant to higher doses of ionizing radiation, the diversity of the isolates was greater in the arid soil. The taxonomic diversity of the isolates recovered was found to decrease as the level of ionizing-radiation exposure increased. Bacterial isolates of the genera Deinococcus, Geodermatophilus, and Hymenobacter were still recovered from the arid soil after exposure to doses of 17 to 30 kGy. The recovery of large numbers of extremely ionizing-radiation-resistant bacteria from an arid soil and not from a nonarid soil provides further ecological support for the hypothesis that the ionizing-radiation resistance phenotype is a consequence of the evolution of other DNA repair systems that protect cells against commonly encountered environmental stressors, such as desiccation. The diverse group of bacterial strains isolated from the arid soil sample included 60 Deinococcus strains, the characterization of which revealed nine novel species of this genus.


Author(s):  
Ian L. Pepper ◽  
Karen L. Josephson ◽  
Rachel L. Bailey ◽  
Mark D. Burr ◽  
Charles P. Gerba

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-607
Author(s):  
Yonggang Wang ◽  
Shengcai Dou ◽  
Qingfang Zhang ◽  
Abdolghaffar Ebadi ◽  
Jixiang Chen ◽  
...  

The problem of environmental pollution caused by the development and use of petroleum is increasingly obvious, which is a serious threat to human health. The use of microbial degradation to treat oil pollution is one of the environmentally effective, economical and practical methods.In order to explore the soil microbial diversity in the desert area of Northwest China, this paper analyzes the soil bacterial diversity of soil samples collected from different oil-contaminated areas in Yumen Oilfield for the oil pollution problem in the Yumen Oilfield in the northwest desert area, and selects the high efficiency through pure culture technology. Petroleum degradation bacteria, and research on the biological characteristics of degrading bacteria. The composition, abundance and diversity of bacterial communities in oil-contaminated soil in Yumen Oilfield were analyzed. The culturable bacteria in western oil-contaminated desert soil were separated by coating plate method. The bacterial morphology and 16S rRNA gene system development analysis were studied. The structure and diversity of bacterial community could be cultured, and the oil utilization and degradation ability of the strain could be analyzed. The microbial diversity of Yumen oil-contaminated desert soil was analyzed by Illumina Miseq high-throughput sequencing. Through research, it is found that there are abundant bacterial groups in the oil-contaminated desert soil, and there are obvious diversity. The genetic material in the variable regions of the six soil samples detected a total of 3943 0TU at 97% similarity level, and obtained the soil microbial community. Doors, 48 classes, 78 orders, 179 families and 471 genera, including most common high-efficiency petroleum-degrading bacteria. Petroleum hydrocarbon pollution can change the microbial diversity and community structure of the original soil. The size of microbial diversity in the six soil samples is B2]A1]B1]A2]C1]C2, the diversity of B2 is the highest, the diversity of C2 is the lowest, and the microbial diversity differed greatly between groups, and there was no difference in the group. Among the dominant bacteria isolated from contaminated soil, 8 strains of oil have a degradation rate of more than 30%, including the species of the genus Rhodococcus and Pseudomonas. Soil desertification in western China has a great impact on the local ecological environment. Studying the microbial diversity of desert soils and separating high-efficiency petroleum-degrading strains is of great significance for strengthening the ecological restoration of oil-contaminated environment in desert areas.


Ecosystems ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 654-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Hall ◽  
B. Ahmed ◽  
P. Ortiz ◽  
R. Davies ◽  
R. A. Sponseller ◽  
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