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- Title
Comparison of microbial communities in petroleum-contaminated groundwater using genetic and metabolic profiles at Kyonggi-Do, South Korea.
- Authors
Eun-Hee Lee; Jaisoo Kim; Ji-Young Kim; So-Yeon Koo; Sang-Dong Lee; Kyung-Seok Ko; Dong-Chan Ko; Byoung-Woo Yum; Kyung-Suk Cho
- Abstract
This research has been performed to determine the differences in microbial communities according to physicochemical properties such as concentrations of volatile aromatic hydrocarbons such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX), dissolved oxygen (DO), electron acceptors, etc., in oil-contaminated groundwaters at Kyonggi-Do, South Korea. The properties of bacterial and microbial communities were analyzed by 16S polymerase chain reaction (PCR) denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) fingerprinting method and community-level physiological profiling (CLPP) using Eco-plate, respectively. Based on the DGGE fingerprints, the similarities of bacterial community structures were high with similar DO levels, and low with different DO levels. Whereas the dominant bacterial groups in GW13 (highest BTEX and lowest DO) were acidobacteria, α-proteobacteria, β-proteobacteria, γ-proteobacteria, δ-proteobacteria, and spirochetes, those in GW7 (highest BTEX and highest DO) were actinobacteria, α-proteobacteria, β-proteobacteria, γ-proteobacteria, δ-proteobacteria, and sphingobacteria. Based on the CLPP results, the groundwater samples were roughly divided into three groups: above 4 mg/L in DO (group 1: GW3 and GW7), below 4 mg/L in DO (group 2: GW8, W1, W2, W3, and BH10), and highly contaminated with BTEX (group 3: GW13). Shannon index showed that the microbial diversities and equitabilities were higher in shallower aquifer samples. Overall, this study verified that the greatest influencing factors on microbial/bacterial communities in groundwaters were DO and carbon sources, although BTEX concentration was one of the major factors.
- Subjects
KYONGGI-do (Korea); SOUTH Korea; GROUNDWATER; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN fingerprints; AROMATIC compounds; DISSOLVED oxygen in water; MAPS
- Publication
Environmental Earth Sciences, 2010, Vol 60, Issue 2, p371
- ISSN
1866-6280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12665-009-0181-7