Heavy Metal Pollution in the Ganga River Enhances Carbon Storage Relative to Flux.


Journal

Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology
ISSN: 1432-0800
Titre abrégé: Bull Environ Contam Toxicol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0046021

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jan 2020
Historique:
received: 21 01 2019
accepted: 26 11 2019
pubmed: 2 12 2019
medline: 13 3 2020
entrez: 2 12 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

This study evaluated the relationships between metal pollution and carbon production at six sites along a 285 km length of the Ganga River. Metal contaminated sites did show a significant reduction in microbial biomass, substrate induced respiration, fluorescein diacetate hydrolytic assay (FDAase) and β-D-glucosidase. Concordantly, despite a high concentration of total organic carbon at these sites, CO

Identifiants

pubmed: 31786634
doi: 10.1007/s00128-019-02761-4
pii: 10.1007/s00128-019-02761-4
doi:

Substances chimiques

Metals, Heavy 0
Water Pollutants, Chemical 0
Carbon Dioxide 142M471B3J

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

41-48

Subventions

Organisme : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research New Delhi
ID : 09/013(0611)/2015-EMR-I
Organisme : National Academy of Sciences, India
ID : NAS/2012/2/2015-16

Auteurs

Kavita Verma (K)

Ganga River Ecology Research Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India.

Jitendra Pandey (J)

Ganga River Ecology Research Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India. jiten_pandey@rediffmail.com.

Ekabal Siddiqui (E)

Ganga River Ecology Research Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India.

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