Shifts in the bacterial community caused by combined pollutant loads in the North Canal River, China

Autor: Shengguang Yuan, Wenqiang Zhang, Wenye Li, Zhenhan Li, Minshan Wu, Baoqing Shan
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Journal of Environmental Sciences. 127:541-551
ISSN: 1001-0742
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2022.05.026
Popis: A typical anthropogenically disturbed urban river polluted by a combination of conventional pollutants (nitrogen and phosphorus pollution) and heavy metals was investigated along a 238 km stretch. Changes in the bacterial community were evaluated using high-throughput sequencing, and the relationships between bacteria, heavy metals, and conventional pollutants were investigated. There was large spatial heterogeneity in the bacterial community along the river, and bacterial diversity in the upstream and midstream sections was much higher than in the downstream section. Heavy metals and conventional pollutants both exhibited close correlations with bacterial diversity and composition. For instance, potential fecal indicator bacteria, sewage indicator bacteria and pathogenic bacteria, such as Ruminococcus and Pseudomonas, were closely associated with Cu, Zn, and NH
Databáze: OpenAIRE