Peatland Microbial Communities as Indicators of the Extreme Atmospheric Dust Deposition.

ABSTRACT: We investigated a peat profile from the Izery Mountains, located within the so-called Black Triangle, the border area of Poland, Czech Republic, and Germany. This peatland suffered from an extreme atmospheric pollution during the last 50 years, which created an exceptional natural experiment to examine the impact of pollution on peatland microbes. Testate amoebae (TA), Centropyxis aerophila and Phryganella acropodia, were distinguished as a proxy of atmospheric pollution caused by extensive brown coal combustion. We recorded a decline of mixotrophic TA and development of agglutinated taxa as a response for the extreme concentration of Al (30 g kg^-1) and Cu (96 mg kg^-1) as well as the extreme amount of fly ash particles determined by scanning electron mic

SUBMITTER: Fialkiewicz-Koziel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4363472 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature