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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Impact of chlorophenols and heavy metals on soil microbiota: their effects on activity and community composition, and resistant strains with potential for bioremediation

Cáliz Gelador, Joan 13 December 2011 (has links)
Pollution by toxic compounds is one of the most relevant environmental damages to ecosystems produced by human activity and, therefore, it must be considered in environmental protection and restoration of contaminated sites. According to this purposes, the main goal of this doctoral thesis has been to analyse the impact of several chlorophenols and heavy metals on the microbial communities of two typical Mediterranean soils. The ecological risk concentrations of each pollutant, which have been determined according to respirometric activity and changes in the microbial community composition, and the factors that influence on their effective toxic concentrations (bioavailable pollutants) have been analysed in order to predict their potential impact on different soil ecosystems and provide scientific data for the regulation of the soil protection policies. Moreover, resistant microorganisms with pollutant removal capacities have been isolated from artificially contaminated soil microcosms and tested in axenic cultures, to infer their potential usefulness for bioremediation. / La contaminació amb compostos tòxics antropogènics és un dels perjudicis ambientals més rellevants per als ecosistemes i, per tant, cal tenir-ho en compte en la protecció ambiental i la restauració de llocs contaminats. Amb aquests propòsits, l’objectiu principal d’aquesta tesi doctoral ha estat analitzar l’impacte de clorofenols i metalls pesants sobre la microbiota de dos sòls típicament mediterranis. S’han analitzat les concentracions de risc ecològic de cada contaminant, determinades segons activitat respiromètrica i canvis en la composició de la comunitat microbiana, i els factors que influeixen en les seves concentracions tòxiques efectives (contaminants biodisponibles), per predir l’impacte potencial sobre diferents ecosistemes edàfics i proporcionar evidències científiques per a les polítiques de protecció del sòl. D’altra banda, a partir de microcosmos edàfics contaminats artificialment, es van aïllar també microorganismes resistents amb capacitat per eliminar els contaminants, que van ser analitzats en cultius purs per avaluar-ne la utilitat potencial en bioremediació.

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