Contemporary environmental variation determines microbial diversity patterns in acid mine drainage

JL Kuang, LN Huang, LX Chen, ZS Hua, SJ Li… - The ISME …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A wide array of microorganisms survive and thrive in extreme environments. However, we
know little about the patterns of, and controls over, their large-scale ecological distribution …

Biochemistry and Physiology of Heavy Metal Resistance and Accumulation in Euglena

R Moreno-Sánchez, S Rodríguez-Enríquez… - … : biochemistry, cell and …, 2017 - Springer
Free-living microorganisms may become suitable models for removal of heavy metals from
polluted water bodies, sediments, and soils by using and enhancing their metal …

Uncovering a microbial enigma: isolation and characterization of the streamer-generating, iron-oxidizing, acidophilic bacterium “Ferrovum myxofaciens”

DB Johnson, KB Hallberg… - Applied and environmental …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A betaproteobacterium, shown by molecular techniques to have widespread
global distribution in extremely acidic (pH 2 to 4) ferruginous mine waters and also to be a …

Energy, ecology and the distribution of microbial life

JL Macalady, TL Hamilton… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mechanisms that govern the coexistence of multiple biological species have been studied
intensively by ecologists since the turn of the nineteenth century. Microbial ecologists in the …

Schwertmannite and Fe oxides formed by biological low-pH Fe (II) oxidation versus abiotic neutralization: impact on trace metal sequestration

WD Burgos, T Borch, LD Troyer, F Luan… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Three low-pH coal mine drainage (CMD) sites in central Pennsylvania were studied to
determine similarities in sediment composition, mineralogy, and morphology. Water from …

Surprising abundance of Gallionella-related iron oxidizers in creek sediments at pH 4.4 or at high heavy metal concentrations

M Fabisch, F Beulig, DM Akob, K Küsel - Frontiers in microbiology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
We identified and quantified abundant iron-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB) at three iron-rich,
metal-contaminated creek sites with increasing sediment pH from extremely acidic (R1, pH …

Microbial diversity and its relationship to physicochemical characteristics of the water in two extreme acidic pit lakes from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain)

E Santofimia, E González-Toril, E López-Pamo… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) hosts one of the world's largest accumulations of acidic mine
wastes and pit lakes. The mineralogical and textural characteristics of the IPB ores have …

Diversity of the sediment microbial community in the Aha watershed (Southwest China) in response to acid mine drainage pollution gradients

W Sun, T Xiao, M Sun, Y Dong, Z Ning… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Located in southwest China, the Aha watershed is continually contaminated by acid mine
drainage (AMD) produced from upstream abandoned coal mines. The watershed is fed by …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting oxidation sites on boreal acid sulfate soil macropore surfaces mitigates acid and metal release to recipient water streams

E Högfors-Rönnholm, P Stén, S Christel, S Fröjdö… - Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
When reduced sulfidic parent sediments are oxidized, they become acid sulfate soils and
discharge metal laden acidic solutions that can damage the environment, infrastructure, and …

Geochemical niches of iron-oxidizing acidophiles in acidic coal mine drainage

DS Jones, C Kohl, C Grettenberger… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A legacy of coal mining in the Appalachians has provided a unique opportunity
to study the ecological niches of iron-oxidizing microorganisms. Mine-impacted, anoxic …