Concise review on bacterial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons: emphasis on Indian marine environment

LC Goveas, S Nayak, R Selvaraj - Bioresource Technology Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Petroleum crude oil is cleared from marine environment at the site of oil spill by various
physical, chemical and biological methods. Oil spills and released petroleum hydrocarbons …

[HTML][HTML] Soil microbiomes divergently respond to heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in contaminated industrial sites

ZN Yang, ZS Liu, KH Wang, ZL Liang… - Environmental Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Contaminated sites from electronic waste (e-waste) dismantling and coking plants feature
high concentrations of heavy metals (HMs) and/or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) …

Tar patties are hotspots of hydrocarbon turnover and nitrogen fixation during a nearshore pollution event in the oligotrophic southeastern Mediterranean Sea

M Rubin-Blum, Y Yudkovsky, S Marmen, O Raveh… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Weathered oil, that is, tar, forms hotspots of hydrocarbon degradation by complex biota in
marine environment. Here, we used marker gene sequencing and metagenomics to …

Spatio-temporal variation of the microbial community of the coast of Lebanon in response to petroleum hydrocarbon pollution

HZ Hamdan, FA Ahmad, RM Zayyat, DA Salam - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the coast of Lebanon was analyzed for the dynamic changes in sediment
microbial communities in response to a major petroleum oil spill and tar contamination that …

Forensic environmental geochemistry to reveal the extent, characteristics, and fate of waxy tarballs spilled over the northeast coast of Brazil in 2022

AP Nascimento, RNA Azevedo, MGA Pereira… - Marine Environmental …, 2025 - Elsevier
This work applied the forensic environmental geochemistry assessment to evaluate the
tarballs that contaminated the coast of Brazil in late 2022. Accordingly, saturated and …

A novel method to evaluate chemical concentrations in muddy and sandy coastal regions before and after oil exposures

J Xia, W Zhang, AC Ferguson, KD Mena… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oil spills can result in changes in chemical concentrations along coastlines. In prior work,
these concentration changes were used to evaluate the date sediment was impacted by oil …

Prokaryotic diversity of tropical coastal sand dunes ecosystem using metagenomics

SA Shet, S Garg - 3 Biotech, 2021 - Springer
Coastal sand dunes (CSDs), unique, stressed and hostile habitats act as a barrier between
marine and terrestrial ecosystems. CSDs are stressed in terms of nutrition and fluctuating …

Metagenomic Approach to Assess the Bacterial Communities in the Tarmats of the Qatar Coast, Arabian Gulf

KP Haseeba, JA Al-Khayat, T Jabir, H Shafeeq… - Journal of Coastal …, 2024 - BioOne
ABSTRACT Haseeba, KP; Al-Khayat, JA; Jabir, T.; Shafeeq, H.; Veerasingam, S.; Talaat, A.,
and Vethamony, P., 2024. Metagenomic approach to assess the bacterial communities in …