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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
卷 22, 期 20, 页码 15285-15293出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3906-4
关键词
Subtidal shallow sediments; Field experiment; Acute oil contamination; Macrobenthic community; Bioturbation; Sediment reworking
资金
- programme GDR HYCAR - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universities and the Societe Elf Aquitaine [1123]
An experimental oil spill was carried out in order to assess in situ responses of a macrobenthic community of shallow subtidal sediments historically exposed to petroleum contamination. Both structural and functional (bioturbation activity) parameters of the community, subjected or not to a pulse acute contamination (25,000 ppm), were studied for 18 months. No difference in the community structure was detected between contaminated and control sediments, from 6 to 18 months of experimentation. Vertical distributions of organisms, however, were affected by the presence of oil contamination leading to a deeper burial of some polychaete species. In the same time, changes in sediment-reworking activity and more especially a deeper particle burying in sediments subjected to acute oil contamination were shown. These results highlight the need to complete the analysis of community structure by assessing functional aspects, such as bioturbation activity, a process integrating various aspects of benthic behaviour (e.g. feeding, locomotion, burrow building) in order to estimate real (structural and functional) and long-term effects of oil contamination on benthic communities.
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