Simulation of Microbial Response to Accidental Diesel Spills in Basins Containing Brackish Sea Water and Sediment.

ABSTRACT: The brackish Baltic Sea is under diesel oil pollution risk due to heavy ship traffic. The situation is exasperated by densely distributed marinas and a vigorous although seasonal recreational boating. The seasonality and physical environmental variations hamper the monitoring of microbial communities in response to diesel oil spills. Hence, an 8-week simulation experiment was established in metal basins (containing 265 L sea water and 18 kg quartz sand or natural shore sand as the littoral sediment) to study the effect of accidental diesel oil spills on microbial communities. Our results demonstrated that microbial communities in the surface water responded to diesel oil contamination, whereas those in the littoral sediment did not, indicating that diesel oil degradation mainly happened in

SUBMITTER: Yan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7785775 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature