Study on the spatial distribution of ureolytic microorganisms in farmland soil around tailings with different heavy metal pollution
| Autor: | Caihong Yu, Kaiwen Su, Xuesong Hu, Qiancheng Zhao, Longkai Qiao, Shuo Zhang, Xiaoxia Liu, Xianhong Li, Ziliang Qiu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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China
Farms Environmental Engineering 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Environmental remediation Microorganism 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Actinobacteria Soil Metals Heavy Soil Pollutants Environmental Chemistry Waste Management and Disposal Soil Microbiology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Topsoil biology Chemistry biology.organism_classification Pollution Tailings Microbial population biology Environmental chemistry Soil water Proteobacteria |
| Zdroj: | Science of The Total Environment. 775:144946 |
| ISSN: | 0048-9697 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.144946 |
| Popis: | Ureolytic microorganisms, a kind of microorganism which can secrete urease and decompose urea, have great potential in remediation of soil heavy metals based on microbial induced carbonate precipitation. However, the horizontal and vertical distribution of ureolytic microbial community in heavy metals contaminated soils is poorly understood. In this study, urease genes in agricultural soils surrounding tailings were first investigated using metagenomic in two dimensions: heavy metal pollution (Low-L, Middle-M, High-H) and soil depth (0–20 cm, 20–40 cm, 40–60 cm, 60–80 cm, 80–100 cm). Results showed that the effect of heavy metal concentration on ureolytic microorganisms was indeed significant, while the changes of ureolytic microorganisms with increasing soil depth varied in the vertical direction at the same level of heavy metal contamination. H site had the highest diversity of ureolytic microorganisms except for the topsoil. And at the same heavy metal contamination level, the ureolytic microbial diversity was lower in deeper soils. Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Thaumarchaeota (Archaea) were the dominant phyla of ureolytic microorganisms in all three sites, accounting for more than 80% of the total. However, the respond to the heavy metal concentrations of three phyla were different, which were increasing, decreasing and essentially unchanged, respectively. Besides, other environmental factors such as SOM and pH had different effects on ureolytic microorganisms, with Proteobacteria being positively correlated and Actinobacteria being the opposite. Another phenomenon was that Actinobacteria and Verrucomicrobia were biomarkers of group L, which could significantly explain the difference with the other two sites. These results provided valuable information for further research on the response mechanism and remediation of heavy metal pollution by ureolytic microbial system. |
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