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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 802, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149671
Keywords
Contaminants of emerging concern; Microbial remediation; Amplicon sequencing; Gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spec-trometry
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Funding
- Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Agraria e Veterinaria, I.P.
- Gene Expression Unit at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (Oeiras, Portugal)
- European Union [778045, SOE2/P5/F0505]
- European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)
- national funds through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) [PTDC/CTA-AMB/6587/2020]
- MOSTMICRO ITQB [UIDB/04612/2020, UIDP/04612/2020]
- FCT [SFRH/BPD/114660/2016, SFRH/BD/118377/2016, CEECIND/04210/2017]
- RESOLUTION LAB
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/114660/2016, SFRH/BD/118377/2016, PTDC/CTA-AMB/6587/2020] Funding Source: FCT
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The use of reclaimed wastewater for irrigation in agriculture can reduce water consumption and provide nutrients to soil, but may also lead to soil contamination by CECs. Short-term irrigation of reclaimed wastewater did not significantly alter soil properties and helped maintain soil microbial diversity and functioning.
The usage of reclaimed wastewater (RWW) for irrigation of agricultural soils is increasingly being acknowledged for reducing water consumption by promoting reuse of treated wastewater, and for the delivery of extant nutrients in the soil. The downside is that RWW may be a vector for contamination of soils with contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), if left uncontrolled. Its usage is anticipated to alter the soil properties, consequently also the soil microbial community. In the present study, soil microcosms were set to monitor how short periods (up to fourteen days) of RWW irrigation influence the soil ecosystem, namely its physicochemical properties, functioning, and colonising microbiota (differentiating fungi from bacteria). Two scenarios were studied: clean soil and soil contaminated (spiked) with 9 CECs, at conditions that limit any abiotic decay processes, monitoring along time fluctuations in the taxonomic and functional microbiota diversity. As shortly as fourteen days, the irrigation of either soil with RWW did not significantly (p > 0.05) alter its physicochemical properties and scarcely impacted the bioremediation processes of the CECs that showed decay levels ranging from 24% to 100%. Bacillus spp. dominance was enhanced along time in all the soil microcosms (reaching over 70% of the total abundance on the 7th day) but the RWW help to preserve, to some extent, high bacterial diversity. Besides, irrigation with RWW acted as a buffer of the soil mycobiota, limiting alterations in its composition caused either along time (to a minor degree) or due to contamination with CECs (to a great degree). This includes limiting the rise of Rhizopus sp. relative abundance. Collectively, our data support the utility of short-term periods of RWW irrigation for preserving the soil microbial diversity and functioning, especially when fungi are considered. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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