Diesel in Antarctica and a Bibliometric Study on Its Indigenous Microorganisms as Remediation Agent
Diesel acts as a main energy source to complement human activities in Antarctica. However, the increased expedition in Antarctica has threatened the environment as well as its living organisms. While more efforts on the use of renewable energy are being done, most activities in Antarctica still depe...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7915771 2023-05-15T13:48:31+02:00 Diesel in Antarctica and a Bibliometric Study on Its Indigenous Microorganisms as Remediation Agent Wong, Rasidnie Razin Lim, Zheng Syuen Shaharuddin, Noor Azmi Zulkharnain, Azham Gomez-Fuentes, Claudio Ahmad, Siti Aqlima 2021-02-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7915771/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33562609 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041512 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7915771/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33562609 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041512 © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041512 2021-03-07T02:11:01Z Diesel acts as a main energy source to complement human activities in Antarctica. However, the increased expedition in Antarctica has threatened the environment as well as its living organisms. While more efforts on the use of renewable energy are being done, most activities in Antarctica still depend heavily on the use of diesel. Diesel contaminants in their natural state are known to be persistent, complex and toxic. The low temperature in Antarctica worsens these issues, making pollutants more significantly toxic to their environment and indigenous organisms. A bibliometric analysis had demonstrated a gradual increase in the number of studies on the microbial hydrocarbon remediation in Antarctica over the year. It was also found that these studies were dominated by those that used bacteria as remediating agents, whereas very little focus was given on fungi and microalgae. This review presents a summary of the collective and past understanding to the current findings of Antarctic microbial enzymatic degradation of hydrocarbons as well as its genotypic adaptation to the extreme low temperature. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 4 1512 |
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Diesel acts as a main energy source to complement human activities in Antarctica. However, the increased expedition in Antarctica has threatened the environment as well as its living organisms. While more efforts on the use of renewable energy are being done, most activities in Antarctica still depend heavily on the use of diesel. Diesel contaminants in their natural state are known to be persistent, complex and toxic. The low temperature in Antarctica worsens these issues, making pollutants more significantly toxic to their environment and indigenous organisms. A bibliometric analysis had demonstrated a gradual increase in the number of studies on the microbial hydrocarbon remediation in Antarctica over the year. It was also found that these studies were dominated by those that used bacteria as remediating agents, whereas very little focus was given on fungi and microalgae. This review presents a summary of the collective and past understanding to the current findings of Antarctic microbial enzymatic degradation of hydrocarbons as well as its genotypic adaptation to the extreme low temperature. |
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Diesel in Antarctica and a Bibliometric Study on Its Indigenous Microorganisms as Remediation Agent |
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