IMPACT OF OIL CONTAMINATION AND BIOREMEDIATION TREATMENTSON THE COMPOSITION AND DEGRADATION EFFICIENCYOF POLAR BACTERIAL SEA-ICE COMMUNITIES

• Main Author: Gerdes, Birte
• Other Authors: Widdel, Friedrich, Helmke, Elisabeth, Amann, Rudolf
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2006
• Subjects: Bioremediation; hydrocarbon degradation; low temperature; sea-ice; bacterial communities; 570; 570 Life sciences; biology; ddc:570; Arctic; Southern Ocean; Fid; Sea ice; ice covered areas
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/2279; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-diss000104729

The threat of a hydrocarbon contamination in the sea-ice covered areas is growing rapidly dueto increasing human activities in the polar regions, which require petroleum as energy source,and due to a fast growing interest in exploiting the estimated one fourth of the world?s oilreservoirs of the Arc...