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Furtak A, Szafranek-Nakonieczna A, Furtak K, Pytlak A. A review of organophosphonates, their natural and anthropogenic sources, environmental fate and impact on microbial greenhouse gases emissions - Identifying knowledge gaps. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 355:120453. [PMID: 38430886 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
Abstract
Organophosphonates (OPs) are a unique group of natural and synthetic compounds, characterised by the presence of a stable, hard-to-cleave bond between the carbon and phosphorus atoms. OPs exhibit high resistance to abiotic degradation, excellent chelating properties and high biological activity. Despite the huge and increasing scale of OP production and use worldwide, little is known about their transportation and fate in the environment. Available data are dominated by information concerning the most recognised organophosphonate - the herbicide glyphosate - while other OPs have received little attention. In this paper, a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge about natural and artificial OPs is presented (including glyphosate). Based on the available literature, a number of knowledge gaps have been identified that need to be filled in order to understand the environmental effects of these abundant compounds. Special attention has been given to GHG-related processes, with a particular focus on CH4. This stems from the recent discovery of OP-dependent CH4 production in aqueous environments under aerobic conditions. The process has changed the perception of the biogeochemical cycle of CH4, since it was previously thought that biological methane formation was only possible under anaerobic conditions. However, there is a lack of knowledge on whether OP-associated methane is also formed in soils. Moreover, it remains unclear whether anthropogenic OPs affect the CH4 cycle, a concern of significant importance in the context of the increasing rate of global warming. The literature examined in this review also calls for additional research into the date of OPs in waste and sewage and in their impact on environmental microbiomes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Adam Furtak
- Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology of Microorganisms, Institute of Medical Sciences, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Konstantynów 1 I, 20-708, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute, Krańcowa 8, INCBR Centre, 24-100, Puławy, Poland
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- Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290, Lublin, Poland.
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Gleeson DB, Martin BC, Lardner T, Ball AS, Grice K, Holman AI, Trolove A, Manix M, Tibbett M, Bending GD, Hilton S, Ryan MH. Natural attenuation of legacy hydrocarbon spills in pristine soils is feasible despite difficult environmental conditions in the monsoon tropics. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 799:149335. [PMID: 34371400 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The Kimberley region of Western Australia is a National Heritage listed region that is internationally recognised for its environmental and cultural significance. However, petroleum spills have been reported at a number of sites across the region, representing an environmental concern. The region is also characterised as having low soil nutrients, high temperatures and monsoonal rain - all of which may limit the potential for natural biodegradation of petroleum. Therefore, this work evaluated the effect of legacy petroleum hydrocarbons on the indigenous soil microbial community (across the domains Archaea, Bacteria and Fungi) at three sites in the Kimberley region. At each site, soil cores were removed from contaminated and control areas and analysed for total petroleum hydrocarbons, soil nutrients, pH and microbial community profiling (using16S rRNA and ITS sequencing on the Illumina MiSeq Platform). The presence of petroleum hydrocarbons decreased microbial diversity across all kingdoms, altered the structure of microbial communities and increased the abundance of putative hydrocarbon degraders (e.g. Mycobacterium, Acremonium, Penicillium, Bjerkandera and Candida). Microbial community shifts from contaminated soils were also associated with an increase in soil nutrients (notably Colwell P and S). Our study highlights the long-term effect of legacy hydrocarbon spills on soil microbial communities and their diversity in remote, infertile monsoonal soils, but also highlights the potential for natural attenuation to occur in these environments.
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- Deirdre B Gleeson
- UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Australia.
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- Ooid Scientific, South Fremantle 6162, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Australia
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- WA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley 6102, Australia
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- WA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley 6102, Australia
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- Horizon Power, 18 Brodie Hall Drive, Bentley 6102, Australia
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- Department of Sustainable Land Management & Soil Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AH, UK; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Australia
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Hewelke E, Szatyłowicz J, Hewelke P, Gnatowski T, Aghalarov R. The Impact of Diesel Oil Pollution on the Hydrophobicity and CO 2 Efflux of Forest Soils. WATER, AIR, AND SOIL POLLUTION 2018; 229:51. [PMID: 29479120 PMCID: PMC5797751 DOI: 10.1007/s11270-018-3720-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 01/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The contamination of soil with petroleum products is a major environmental problem. Petroleum products are common soil contaminants as a result of human activities, and they are causing substantial changes in the biological (particularly microbiological) processes, chemical composition, structure and physical properties of soil. The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of soil moisture on CO2 efflux from diesel-contaminated albic podzol soils. Two contamination treatments (3000 and 9000 mg of diesel oil per kg of soil) were prepared for four horizons from two forest study sites with different initial levels of soil water repellency. CO2 emissions were measured using a portable infrared gas analyser (LCpro+, ADC BioScientific, UK) while the soil samples were drying under laboratory conditions (from saturation to air-dry). The assessment of soil water repellency was performed using the water drop penetration time test. An analysis of variance (ANVOA) was conducted for the CO2 efflux data. The obtained results show that CO2 efflux from diesel-contaminated soils is higher than efflux from uncontaminated soils. The initially water-repellent soils were found to have a bigger CO2 efflux. The non-linear relationship between soil moisture content and CO2 efflux only existed for the upper soil horizons, while for deeper soil horizons, the efflux is practically independent of soil moisture content. The contamination of soil by diesel leads to increased soil water repellency.
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- Edyta Hewelke
- Laboratory - Water Centre, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Ciszewskiego 6, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Improvement, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Improvement, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Improvement, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Improvement, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Nowoursynowska159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
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