Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6328694 | Science of The Total Environment | 2014 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The impacts of fresh organic matter (OM) incorporation in an industrial PAH-contaminated soil on its structure and contaminant concentrations (available and total) were monitored. A control soil and a soil amended with the equivalent of 10Â years maize residue input were incubated in laboratory-controlled conditions over 15Â months. The structure of the amended soil showed an aggregation process trend which is attributable to (i) the enhanced microbial activity resulting from fresh OM input itself and (ii) the fresh OM and its degradation products. Initially the added organic matter was evenly distributed among all granulodensimetric fractions, and then rapidly degraded in the sand fraction, while stabilizing and accumulating in the silts. PAH degradation remained slight, despite the enhanced microbial biomass activity, which was similar to kinetics of the turnover rate of OM in an uncontaminated soil. The silts stabilized the anthropogenic OM and associated PAH. The addition of fresh OM tended to contribute to this stabilization process. Thus, in a context of plant growth on this soil two opposing processes might occur: rhizodegradation of the available contaminant and enhanced stabilization of the less available fraction due to carbon input.
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Authors
Audrey Pernot, Stéphanie Ouvrard, Pierre Leglize, Françoise Watteau, Delphine Derrien, Catherine Lorgeoux, Laurence Mansuy-Huault, Pierre Faure,