China’s most typical nonferrous organic-metal facilities own specific microbial communities
Résumé
The diversity and function of microorganisms have yet to be explored at non-ferrous metal mining
facilities (NMMFs), which are the world’s largest and potentially most toxic sources of co-existing
metal(loid)s and flotation reagents (FRs). The diversity and inferred functions of different bacterial
communities inhabiting two types of sites (active and abandoned) in Guangxi province (China) were
investigated for the first time. Here we show that the structure and diversity of bacteria correlated with
the types of mine sites, metal(loid)s, and FRs concentrations; and best correlated with the combination
of pH, Cu, Pb, and Mn. Combined microbial coenobium may play a pivotal role in NMMFs microbial life.
Arenimonas
, specific in active mine sites and an acidophilic bacterium, carries functions able to cope
with the extreme conditions, whereas Latescibacteria specific in abandoned sites can degrade organics.
Such a bacterial consortium provides new insights to develop cost-effective remediation strategies of
co-contaminated sites that currently remain intractable for bioremediation.
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