The role of metal contamination in shaping microbial communities in heavily polluted marine sediments (CROSBI ID 279346)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Di Cesare, Andrea ; Pjevac, Petra ; Eckert, Ester M. ; Cukrov, Neven ; Miko Šparica, Martina ; Corno, Gianluca ; Orlić, Sandi
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The role of metal contamination in shaping microbial communities in heavily polluted marine sediments
Microorganisms in coastal sediments are fundamental for ecosystem functioning, and regulate processes relevant in global biogeochemical cycles. Still, our understanding of the effects anthropogenic perturbation and pollution can have on microbial communities in marine sediments is limited. We surveyed the microbial diversity, and the occurrence and abundance of metal and antibiotic resistance genes is sediments collected from the Pula Bay (Croatia), one of the most significantly polluted sites along the Croatian coast. With a collection of 14 samples from the bay area, we were able to generate a detailed status quo picture of a site that only recently started a cleaning and remediation process (closing of sewage pipes and reduction of industrial activity). The concentrations of heavy metals in Pula Bay sediments are significantly higher than in pristine sediments from the Adriatic Sea, and in some cases, manifold exceed international sediment quality guidelines. While the sedimentary concentrations of heavy metals did significantly influence the abundance of the tested metal resistance genes, no strong effect of heavy metal pollution on the overall microbial community composition was observed. Like in many other marine sediments, Gammaproteobacteria, Bacteroidota and Desulfobacterota dominated the microbial community composition in most samples, and community assembly was primarily driven by water column depth and nutrient (carbon and nitrogen) availability, regardless of the degree of heavy metal pollution.
sediments ; pollution ; heavy metals ; metal resistance genes ; microbial diversity
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Podaci o izdanju
265 (B)
2020.
114823
12
objavljeno
0269-7491
1873-6424
10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114823
Povezanost rada
Biologija, Interdisciplinarne prirodne znanosti