Recovery of Smelter-Impacted Peat and Sphagnum Moss: a Microbial Perspective
Microb Ecol. 2023 Aug 26. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02289-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeatlands store approximately one-half of terrestrial soil carbon and one-tenth of non-glacial freshwater. Some of these important ecosystems are located near heavy metal emitting smelters. To improve the understanding of smelter impacts and potential recovery after initial pollution controls in the 1970s (roughly 50 years of potential recovery), we sampled peatlands along a distance gradient of 134 km from a smelter in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, an area with over a century of nickel (Ni) and copper (Cu) mining activity. This work is ai...
Source: Microbial Ecology - August 26, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: James Seward Suzanna Br äuer Peter Beckett Pascale Roy-L éveillée Erik Emilson Shaun Watmough Nathan Basiliko Source Type: research
Recovery of Smelter-Impacted Peat and Sphagnum Moss: a Microbial Perspective
Microb Ecol. 2023 Aug 26. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02289-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeatlands store approximately one-half of terrestrial soil carbon and one-tenth of non-glacial freshwater. Some of these important ecosystems are located near heavy metal emitting smelters. To improve the understanding of smelter impacts and potential recovery after initial pollution controls in the 1970s (roughly 50 years of potential recovery), we sampled peatlands along a distance gradient of 134 km from a smelter in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, an area with over a century of nickel (Ni) and copper (Cu) mining activity. This work is ai...
Source: Microbial Ecology - August 26, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: James Seward Suzanna Br äuer Peter Beckett Pascale Roy-L éveillée Erik Emilson Shaun Watmough Nathan Basiliko Source Type: research
Recovery of Smelter-Impacted Peat and Sphagnum Moss: a Microbial Perspective
Microb Ecol. 2023 Aug 26. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02289-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPeatlands store approximately one-half of terrestrial soil carbon and one-tenth of non-glacial freshwater. Some of these important ecosystems are located near heavy metal emitting smelters. To improve the understanding of smelter impacts and potential recovery after initial pollution controls in the 1970s (roughly 50 years of potential recovery), we sampled peatlands along a distance gradient of 134 km from a smelter in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, an area with over a century of nickel (Ni) and copper (Cu) mining activity. This work is ai...
Source: Microbial Ecology - August 26, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: James Seward Suzanna Br äuer Peter Beckett Pascale Roy-L éveillée Erik Emilson Shaun Watmough Nathan Basiliko Source Type: research
Deterministic Development of Soil Microbial Communities in Disturbed Soils Depends on Microbial Biomass of the Bioinoculum
Microb Ecol. 2023 Aug 25. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02285-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite its enormous importance for ecosystem services, factors driving microbial recolonization of soils after disturbance are still poorly understood. Here, we compared the microbial recolonization patterns of a disturbed, autoclaved soil using different amounts of the original non-disturbed soil as inoculum. By using this approach, we manipulated microbial biomass, but did not change microbial diversity of the inoculum. We followed the development of a new soil microbiome after reinoculation over a period of 4 weeks using a molecula...
Source: Microbial Ecology - August 25, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: Yuri Pinheiro Alves de Souza Michael Schloter Wolfgang Weisser Stefanie Schulz Source Type: research
Deterministic Development of Soil Microbial Communities in Disturbed Soils Depends on Microbial Biomass of the Bioinoculum
Microb Ecol. 2023 Aug 25. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02285-9. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite its enormous importance for ecosystem services, factors driving microbial recolonization of soils after disturbance are still poorly understood. Here, we compared the microbial recolonization patterns of a disturbed, autoclaved soil using different amounts of the original non-disturbed soil as inoculum. By using this approach, we manipulated microbial biomass, but did not change microbial diversity of the inoculum. We followed the development of a new soil microbiome after reinoculation over a period of 4 weeks using a molecula...
Source: Microbial Ecology - August 25, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: Yuri Pinheiro Alves de Souza Michael Schloter Wolfgang Weisser Stefanie Schulz Source Type: research
