Soil microbiota and microarthropod communities in oil contaminated sites in the European Subarctic.

ABSTRACT: The present comprehensive study aimed to estimate the aftermath of oil contamination and the efficacy of removing the upper level of polluted soil under the conditions of the extreme northern taiga of northeastern European Russia. Soil samples from three sites were studied. Two sites were contaminated with the contents of a nearby sludge collector five years prior to sampling. The highly contaminated upper soil level was removed from one of them. The other was left for self-restoration. A chemical analysis of the soils was conducted, and changes in the composition of the soil zoocoenosis and bacterial and fungal microbiota were investigated. At both contaminated sites, a decrease in the abundance and taxonomic diversity of indicator groups of soil fauna, oribatid mites and collembolans com

SUBMITTER: Melekhina EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8490368 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature