Artículo
Potential bacterial bioindicators of urban pollution in mangroves
Torres, Guillermo G.; Figueroa Galvis, Ingrid Paola
; Muñoz García, Andrea; Polanía, Jaime; Vanegas, Javier
Fecha de publicación:
12/2019
Editorial:
Elsevier
Revista:
Environmental Pollution
ISSN:
0269-7491
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
Despite their ecological and socioeconomic importance, mangroves are among the most threatened tropical environments in the world. In the past two decades, the world's mangrove degradation and loss were estimated to lie between an 35% and >80%. However, appropriate bioindicators for assessing the impact of external factors, and for differentiating polluted from unpolluted areas are still scarce. Here, we determine the physicochemical profiles of the soils of two mangroves, one exposed to and one not exposed to anthropogenic factors. By metagenomic analysis based on 16S rRNA, we generated the bacterial diversity profiles of the soils and estimated their functional profiles. Our results showed that the two examined mangrove forests differed significantly in the physicochemical properties of the soils, especially regarding organic carbon, phosphorus and metal content, as well as in their microbial communities, which was likely caused by anthropogenic pollution. The physicochemical differences between the soils explained 76% of the differential bacterial composition, and 64% depended solely on gradients of phosphorus, metal ions and potassium. We found two genera JL-ETNP-Z39 and TA06 exclusively in polluted and non-polluted mangroves, respectively. Additionally, the polluted mangrove was enriched in Gemmatimonadetes, Cyanobacteria, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Acidobacteria, and Nitrospirae. A total of 77 genera were affected by anthropic contamination, of which we propose 33 as bioindicators; 26 enriched, and 7 depleted upon pollution.
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Torres, Guillermo G.; Figueroa Galvis, Ingrid Paola; Muñoz García, Andrea; Polanía, Jaime; Vanegas, Javier; Potential bacterial bioindicators of urban pollution in mangroves; Elsevier; Environmental Pollution; 255; 2; 12-2019; 1-9
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