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Perturbation of seafloor bacterial community structure by drilling waste discharge
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Nguyen, Tan T. Cochrane, Sabine K. J. Landfald, Bjarne |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Journal: Marine pollution bulletin Offshore drilling operations result in the generation of drill cuttings and localized smothering of the benthic habitats. This study explores bacterial community changes in the in the upper layers of the seafloor resulting from an exploratory drilling operation at 1400m water depth on the Barents Sea continental slope. Significant restructurings of the sediment microbiota were restricted to the sampling sites notably affected by the drilling waste discharge, i.e. at 30m and 50m distances from the drilling location, and to the upper 2cm of the seafloor. Three bacterial groups, the orders Clostridiales and Desulfuromonadales and the class Mollicutes, were almost exclusively confined to the upper two centimeters at 30m distance, thereby corroborating an observed increase in anaerobicity inflicted by the drilling waste deposition. The potential of these phylogenetic groups as microbial bioindicators of the spatial extent and persistence of drilling waste discharge should be further explored. |
| Related Links | https://munin.uit.no/bitstream/10037/12404/3/article.pdf |
| Ending Page | 622 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| Starting Page | 615 |
| ISSN | 0025326X |
| e-ISSN | 18793363 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.039 |
| Journal | Marine pollution bulletin |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 129 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Publisher Date | 2018-04-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Marine pollution bulletin Marine and Freshwater Biology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Pollution Aquatic Science Oceanography |
