Biodegradation of anthropogenic pollutants in shallow aquifers is an important microbial
ecosystem service which is mainly brought about by indigenous anaerobic microorganisms …

Petroleum hydrocarbons are introduced into the environment through excessive use of fuels
and accidental spills during transportation and storage. Alkanes, a major fraction of crude …

Microbial assemblage in an n-alkanes-dependent thermophilic methanogenic enrichment
cultures derived from production waters of a high-temperature petroleum reservoir was …

Crude oil consists of a large number of hydrocarbons with different susceptibility to microbial
degradation. The influence of hydrocarbon structure and molecular weight on hydrocarbon …

Analyses of microbial communities from six water-flooding petroleum reservoirs at
temperatures from 21 to 63° C by 16S rRNA gene clone libraries indicates the presence of …

Despite the knowledge on anaerobic degradation of hydrocarbons and signature
metabolites in the oil reservoirs, little is known about the functioning microbes and the …

Methanogenic, sulfate-and nitrate-reducing enrichment cultures amended with long-chain n-
alkanes (C15–C20) were established with production water from Huabei oilfield in China in …

Microbially mediated anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is an important sink in the
global methane cycle, but the mechanism and microorganisms responsible for this oxidation …

BACKGROUND: This work is focused on the anaerobic biodegradation of wastewater from
used industrial oils (UIO) recovery using a bench‐scale expanded granular sludge bed …

Soil is an unrenewable natural resource on which we apply more and more pressures and
demands. One of the main anthropogenic threats to soils, compromising their ability to …