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Fernandes CE Das A Nath BN Faria DG Loka Bharathi PA 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2012,184(5):2677-2689
We investigated the influence on bacterial community and biochemical variables through mechanical disturbance of sediment-akin
to small-scale mining in Kalbadevi beach, Ratnagiri, a placer-rich beach ecosystem which is a potential mining site. Changes
were investigated by comparing three periods, namely phase I before disturbance, phase II just after disturbance, and phase
III 24 h after disturbance as the bacterial generation time is ≤7 h. Cores from dune, berm, high-, mid-, and low-tide were
examined for changes in distribution of total bacterial abundance, total direct viability (counts under aerobic and anaerobic
conditions), culturability and biochemical parameters up to 40 cm depth. Results showed that bacterial abundance decreased
by an order from 106 cells g − 1 sediment, while, viability reduced marginally. Culturability on different-strength nutrient broth increased by 155% during
phase II. Changes in sedimentary proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids were marked at berm and dune and masked at other levels
by tidal influence. Sedimentary ATP reduced drastically. During phase III, Pearson’s correlation between these variables evolved
from non-significant to significant level. Thus, simulated disturbance had a mixed effect on bacterial and biochemical variables
of the sediments. It had a negative impact on bacterial abundance, viability and ATP but positive impact on culturability.
Viability, culturability, and ATP could act as important indicators reflecting the disturbance in the system at short time
intervals. Culturability, which improved by an order, could perhaps be a fraction that contributes to restoration of the system
at bacterial level. This baseline information about the potential mining site could help in developing rational approach towards
sustainable harnessing of resources with minimum damage to the ecosystem. 相似文献
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Usha R Ramalingam K Bharathi Rajan UD 《Journal of environmental biology / Academy of Environmental Biology, India》2006,27(4):713-722
The freshwater Perumal lake located at Cuddalore was assessed for its suitability and potential for aquaculture practices. Various hydrobiological parameters determined reveals that the various physicochemical characteristics are with in normal range of values. The DO level, BOD and COD values determined in the lake revealed the consequences of community activities and pollution possibilities. The primary productivity data revealed maximum productivity during March which infer that the lake is unaffected by anthropogenic disturbance and community contamination. The bacterial count remained higher during the monsoon periods, which characterize profuse rainfall and storm water discharge into the lake. The microfauna includes zooplankter such as cladocerans, copepods, rotifers and ostracods. Benthos include carps, catfishes, mullets and prawns. The above study revealed that the various parameters in the lake conform to the levels suited for freshwater fish culture and represents a resource for scientific management. 相似文献
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de Villiers MM van Eeden CM Malan SF Devarakonda B Liebenberg W Kolling WM 《Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B》2005,40(2):215-231
The adsorption of amitraz to various adsorbents was studied in terms of the amount and rate of adsorption and the effect that adsorption had on the stability of amitraz in an aqueous environment. Adsorption results showed that in terms of their ability to adsorb amitraz from solution the adsorbents tested in this study can be ordered as follows: coarse carbon > cation exchange resin > or = anion exchange resin > fine carbon. Amitraz was not adsorbed on sand and potassium oxihumate. Adding sodium lauryl sulfate and potassium oxihumate to aqueous suspensions of suspended adsorbents containing adsorbed amitraz showed that both these anionic surfactants significantly increased the hydrolysis rate because the half-lives for amitraz was reduced from 27 days for a suspension to only 8 hours for amitraz adsorbed to a cation exchange resin and suspended in an aqueous buffer pH 5.8 containing 0.5% of the anionic surfactant sodium lauryl sulfate and 12 hours when 1% potassium oxihumate was added. 相似文献
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Loka Bharathi PA Sathe V Chandramohan D 《Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)》1990,67(4):361-374
A sulphate-reducing bacterial strain isolated from the south-west coast of India resembling Desulfosarcina in its physiology was tested for its behaviour towards HgCl(2), CdSO(4) and Pb(NO(3))(2). The order of toxicity to growth of these metal salts in a lactate-based medium at 50 microg ml(-1) concentrations was Cd>Pb>Hg and to respiration Pb>Cd>Hg. Inhibitory concentrations (viz. 100 microg ml(-1) of HgCl(2) and 200 microg ml(-1) of Pb(NO(3)(2)) had a stimulatory effect when the substrate was changed to acetate. With sodium acetate at 0.1% concentration, Hg and Pb had maximum stimulatory effect for growth and sulphide production. Experiments conducted directly with sediment slurries amended with lactate showed that all three metals (at levels below their inhibitory concentrations, i.e. 50 microg ml(-1) of metal salt for Cd and Hg and 100 microg ml(-1) for Pb) inhibited sulphate-reducing activity (SRA) with Pb decreasing the peak production by 68%. The order of toxicity in both lactate and acetate-amended slurry was Pb>Cd>Hg and Pb>Hg>Cd, respectively. With acetate, SRA in the presence of Cd and Hg was stimulated 110% and 27%, respectively. Pb inhibited SRA by 11%. There is a general reduction in the inhibition of sulphide production in slurries as compared with pure culture of the isolate. 相似文献
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Nurdan S. Duzgoren-Aydin Bharathi Avula Kristine L. Willett Ikhlas A. Khan 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2011,172(1-4):51-66
Determination of solid-bound element concentrations is an important initial step in environmental studies especially for assessment of contamination level, and of origin, relative mobility, and fate of contaminants. This study revealed that a relatively new collision/reaction cell inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry is a potent tool for determining total and partially extractable solid-bound element (V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, and Pb) concentrations in a complex matrix solution containing HF and/or HCl. Six different extraction methods commonly used for environmental monitoring studies were tested for their bias and variability using estuarine and marine standard reference materials. Microwave-assisted methods based on concentrated [HNO3] or [HNO3?+?HF (4:1)] and [HNO3?+?HF?+?HCl (10:3:2)] were applied for determining pseudo-total and total element concentrations, respectively. Dilute-acids (1 M HNO3, 1 M HCl, and 0.5 M HCl) were utilized in single-step partial extraction protocols. Except the 0.5 M HCl cold-extraction method which was performed at room temperature, other partial extraction protocols used microwave-digestion. This study demonstrated that the use of microwave-assisted methods in studies aimed at determining the non-residual, non-specific extractable fractions of elements in solid environmental samples may result in overestimation, and thus needs to be re-examined. We believe that the cold extraction method will play a significant role in future environmental monitoring studies. Nevertheless, results of the cold extraction method not accompanied with total element concentrations have limited value, as the amount of extraction may vary significantly with the nature (origin) of the elements, and with the types of the samples. Therefore, we suggest combining microwave-assisted total digestion and 0.5 M HCl cold-extraction methods as a relatively cost- and time-effective, environmentally sound screening procedure for routine environmental monitoring programs involving a large number of samples from diverse geological and anthropogenic settings. 相似文献
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Sau-Ping Kwan Ann P. Walker Tracy Hagemann Sudhir Gupta Bharathi Vayuvegula Hans D. Ochs 《黑龙江环境通报》1994,14(6):493-496
X-linked agammaglobulinaemia is an inherited recessive disease in which the primary defect lies in the failure of pre-B cells to develop into mature circulating B cells, due to a defective B-cell cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase (btk). For this study we introduced a new RFLP marker, SP282, which is tightly linked to the XLA locus. In conjunction with the marker DXS178, SP282 was used to identify a carrier female and predict her male offspring to be normal. Subsequently the fetus was shown to have a normal number of circulating B cells, and at 2·5 years of age, the non-affected phenotype of the child was confirmed. 相似文献
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印染行业清洁生产技术 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
论述了目前印染行业水污染的现状及原因,指出调整产业结构、应用新工艺、大力提倡节约用水、清沽生产将是印染行业实现可持续发展的必由之路。 相似文献
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Sheryl Oliveira Fernandes P. A. Loka Bharathi 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2011,173(1-4):117-125
A study to examine the short-term effect of nitrate and organic carbon addition on denitrification activity was carried out on sediments from a mangrove ecosystem prone to anthropogenic activities (Divar, Goa, India). Laboratory microcosms were prepared using sediment sectioned at every 2-cm-depth interval from the surface to 10 cm. The incubations were subjected to varying nitrate amendments at concentrations ranging from 0, 5, 10, 20, 40 to 60 ??mol l???1 (up to three times more than measured in field). Nitrous oxide production rates increased significantly (n?=?15; p?<?0.001) on addition of the nutrient at all depths investigated indicating that denitrification in mangrove sediments was NO $_{3}^{-}$ limited. Incubations amended with organic carbon were prepared using glucose as a substrate with concentrations ranging from 0%, 0.1%, 0.3%, 0.5%, 0.75% to 1%. No significant increase in N2O production was observed on organic C addition. When both the substrates were in excess (1 mmol KNO3 + 1 mmol glucose), potential denitrification rates decreased with depth and were up to 38 times higher than the in situ denitrification activity varying from 81.26 to 304.09 ??mol N2O-N m???2 h???1. These results reveal that mangrove sediments could act as a sink for nitrate and microbially mediated denitrification could effectively reduce N load controlling any adverse environmental impact in the adjoining estuarine system. 相似文献
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Jose J Giridhar R Anas A Loka Bharathi PA Nair S 《Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)》2011,159(10):2775-2780
Over the past three decades heavy metal pollution has increased substantially in Cochin estuary, south west coast of India. Here we studied the distribution, diversity and enzyme expression profile of culturable microbial population along a pollution gradient. The distribution of resistance against 5 mM concentration of Zn, Co, Ni and Cu was observed among 90-100% of bacterial isolates retrieved from highly polluted Eloor, whereas it was less than 40% in Vypin and Munambam. Similarly, there was a difference in the distribution and diversity of bacterial phyla with predominance of Proteobacteria in Eloor and Firmicutes in Munambam and Vypin. We observed that 75-100% of the organisms retrieved from Eloor had low levels of expression for hydrolytic enzyme. In conclusion, the heavy metal pollution in Cochin estuary brought in reduction/adaptation in the distribution, diversity and enzyme expression profile of bacteria, which may impart adverse impacts on ecosystem functioning. 相似文献
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Effects of composition of labile organic matter on biogenic production of methane in the coastal sediments of the Arabian Sea 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Gonsalves MJ Fernandes CE Fernandes SO Kirchman DL Bharathi PA 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2011,182(1-4):385-395
Coastal regions are potential zones for production of methane which could be governed by ecological/environmental differences or even sediment properties of a niche. In order to test the hypothesis that methanogenesis in most marine sediments could be driven more by proteins than by carbohydrates and lipid content of labile organic matter (LOM), incubation experiments were carried out with sediments from different environmental niches to measure methane production. The methane production rates were examined in relationship to the sediment biochemistry, i.e., carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. The gas production measured by head space method ranged from 216 ng g(?-1) day(?-1) in the mangrove sediments to 3.1 μg g(?-1) day(?-1) in the shallow Arabian Sea. LOM ranged from 1.56 to 2.85 mg g(?-1) in the shallow Arabian Sea, from 3.35 to 5.43 mg g(?-1) in the mangrove estuary, and from 0.66 to 0.70 mg g(?-1) in the sandy sediments with proteins contributing maximum to the LOM pool. Proteins influenced methane production in the clayey sediments of shallow depths of the Arabian Sea (r = 0.933, p < 0.001) and mangrove estuary (r = 0.981, p < 0.001) but in the sandy beach sediments, carbohydrates (r = 0.924, p < 0.001) governed the net methane production. The gas production was more pronounced in shallow and surface sediments and it decreased with depth apparently governed by the decrease in lability index. Thus, the lability index and protein content are important factors that determine methane production rates in these coastal ecosystems. 相似文献