The toxicity of residual hydrocarbons and polar metabolites on Antarctic soil microbial diversity

• Main Author: Pudasaini, Sarita
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: UNSW Sydney 2019
• Subjects: Residual hydrocarbons; Antarctic soil; Bioremediation; Polar metabolites; Bacteria; Eukaryotes; Multi-species toxicity; Antarctic; Casey Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/21778; http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/65813

Hydrocarbon contamination in terrestrial Antarctica pose serious threats to the environment and the native species thriving. A legacy of fuel spills means that partially remediated soils are likely to contain fingerprints of unresolved complex mixture (UCM) which are comprised of residual hydrocarbo...