scholarly journals Activity and functional diversity of microbial communities in long-term hydrocarbon and heavy metal contaminated soils

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Markowicz ◽  
Grażyna Płaza ◽  
Zofia Piotrowska-Seget
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Contaminated Soils ◽  
Coke Plant ◽  
Soil Microbial Communities ◽  
Hydrocarbon Contamination ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Abstract The impacts of long-term polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metal pollution on soil microbial communities functioning were studied in soils taken from an old coke plant. The concentrations of PAHs in the tested soils ranged from 171 to 2137 mg kg-1. From the group of tested heavy metals, concentrations of lead were found to be the highest, ranging from 57 to 3478 mg kg-1, while zinc concentrations varied from 247 to 704 mg kg-1 and nickel from 10 to 666 mg kg-1. High dehydrogenase, acid and alkaline phosphatase activities were observed in the most contaminated soil. This may indicate bacterial adaptation to long-term heavy metal and hydrocarbon contamination. However, the Community Level Physiological Profiles (CLPPs) analysis showed that the microbial functional diversity was reduced and influenced to a higher extent by some metals (Pb, Ni), moisture and conductivity than by PAHs.

scholarly journals How the Soil Microbial Communities and Activities Respond to Long-Term Heavy Metal Contamination in Electroplating Contaminated Site

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Jing Gong ◽  
Zi-Fan Niu ◽  
Xing-Run Wang ◽  
He-Ping Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Metal Contamination ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Soil Microbial Communities ◽  
Contaminated Site ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Cu And Zn

The effects of long-term heavy metal contamination on the soil biological processes and soil microbial communities were investigated in a typical electroplating site in Zhangjiakou, China. It was found that the soil of the electroplating plant at Zhangjiakou were heavily polluted by Cr, Cr (VI), Ni, Cu, and Zn, with concentrations ranged from 112.8 to 9727.2, 0 to 1083.3, 15.6 to 58.4, 10.8 to 510.0 and 69.6 to 631.6 mg/kg, respectively. Soil urease and phosphatase activities were significantly inhibited by the heavy metal contamination, while the microbial biomass carbon content and the bacterial community richness were much lower compared to noncontaminated samples, suggesting that the long-term heavy metal contamination had a severe negative effect on soil microorganisms. Differently, soil dehydrogenase was promoted in the presence of Chromate compared to noncontaminated samples. This might be due to the enrichment of Sphingomonadaceae, which have been proven to be able to secrete dehydrogenase. The high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene documented that Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Chloroflexi were the dominant bacterial phyla in the contaminated soil. The Spearman correlation analysis showed the Methylobacillus, Muribaculaceae, and Sphingomonadaceae were able to tolerate high concentrations of Cr, Cr (VI), Cu, and Zn, indicating their potential in soil remediation.

scholarly journals Effect of Long-Term Continuous Fumigation on Soil Microbial Communities

Agronomy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadikshya Dangi ◽  
Rebecca Tirado-Corbalá ◽  
James Gerik ◽  
Bradley Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Soil Microbial Communities ◽  
Soil Microbial

scholarly journals Evaluation of functional diversity of soil microbial communities – a case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hofman ◽  
J. Švihálek ◽  
I. Holoubek
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Diversity Index ◽  
Soil Microbial Communities ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Soil Microbial ◽  
Routine Monitoring ◽  
Best Parameter

In our case study, we measured the functional diversity of the microbial communities of twelve soils from the small natural area to assess if this assay is suitable for routine monitoring of soil biological quality. We found the BIOLOG assay meets especially practical benefits in routine monitoring of soils being simple and quick assay. However, we confirmed the ambiguity about the most appropriate analysis of the BIOLOG multivariate data and about the best parameter, which can be derived from the assay. The different analyses of the data were examined and various parameters derived from the BIOLOG assay were comparatively used to contribute to the discussion of how the data should be evaluated. We showed that not-normalized raw absorbances or trapezoid areas should be used for calculation of diversity index if the inoculum was standardized. There was no single answer to what parameter provided more correct results in the multivariate statistical analysis. Evaluating at least one not-normalized (e.g. trapezoid area) and one normalized parameter (e.g. absorbances read in fixed AWCD) was strongly suggested keeping in mind that they reveal different information.

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