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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 409, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124472
Keywords
Heavy metals; Microbiomes; Resistomes; Source apportionment; Source-specific ecological risk
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC0406502]
- National 111 Project of China [B18006]
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Program for Land Surface Science
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This study demonstrated that heavy metal enrichment has significant effects on sediment microbiomes, antibiotic resistance genes, and metal resistance genes. Source apportionment and a modified risk model showed that human activities primarily contribute to the ecological risks of metals in urban rivers.
This study aims to better understand the effects of heavy metal enrichment on microbiomes and resistomes and the source-specific ecological risks of metals in the sediments of an urban river. Geo-accumulation index and enrichment factor suggested the river sediments were contaminated by Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn in varying degrees. High-throughput sequencing-based metagenomics analysis identified 430 types of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), dominated by the multidrug, MLS, bacitracin, quinolone, and aminoglycoside ARGs, and 52 metal resistance genes (MRGs) mainly conferring resistance to zinc, copper, cadmium, lead, mercury and multiple metals. Spearman correlation analysis and Mantel test showed the heavy metal enrichment exerted significant effects on the microbial community, ARGs and MRGs. Source apportionment using positive matrix factorization revealed that natural source (42.8%) was the largest contributor of metals in the river sediments, followed by urban activities (35.4%) and a mixed source (21.7%). However, when incorporating the apportionment results into a modified risk model to evaluate the source-specific ecological risks, results showed human activities dominated the risks of metals. Comparatively, the urban activities majorly caused moderateand considerable ecological risks, while the mixed source with respect to agricultural and industrial activities contributed higher percentages on highand extremely highecological risks.
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