Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons on Plant Litter Microbiota in an Arctic Lake

• Main Authors: McKinley, Vicky L., Federle, Thomas W., Vestal, J. Robie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1982
• Subjects: General Microbial Ecology; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Prudhoe Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC241792; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16345915

The effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on the microbial community associated with decomposing Carex leaf litter colonized in Toolik Lake, Alaska, were examined. Microbial metabolic activity, measured as the rate of acetate incorporation into lipid, did not vary significantly from controls over a 12-h...