Stimulation of Microbially Mediated Arsenic Release in Bangladesh Aquifers by Young Carbon Indicated by Radiocarbon Analysis of Sedimentary Bacterial Lipids

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• 作者：K. J. Whaley-Martin ; B. J. Mailloux ; A. van Geen ; B. C. Bostick ; R. F. Silvern ; C. Kim ; K. M. Ahmed ; I. Choudhury ; G. F. Slater
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 19, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：50
• 期：14
• 页码：7353-7363
• 全文大小：539K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5851

文摘

The sources of reduced carbon driving the microbially mediated release of arsenic to shallow groundwater in Bangladesh remain poorly understood. Using radiocarbon analysis of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and potential carbon pools, the abundance and carbon sources of the active, sediment-associated, in situ bacterial communities inhabiting shallow aquifers (<30 m) at two sites in Araihazar, Bangladesh, were investigated. At both sites, sedimentary organic carbon (SOC) Δ¹⁴C signatures of −631 ± 54‰ (n = 12) were significantly depleted relative to dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) of +24 ± 30‰ and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of −230 ± 100‰. Sediment-associated PLFA Δ¹⁴C signatures (n = 10) at Site F (−167‰ to +20‰) and Site B (−163‰ to +21‰) were highly consistent and indicated utilization of carbon sources younger than the SOC, likely from the DOC pool. Sediment-associated PLFA Δ¹⁴C signatures were consistent with previously determined Δ¹⁴C signatures of microbial DNA sampled from groundwater at Site F indicating that the carbon source for these two components of the subsurface microbial community is consistent and is temporally stable over the two years between studies. These results demonstrate that the utilization of relatively young carbon sources by the subsurface microbial community occurs at sites with varying hydrology. Further they indicate that these young carbon sources drive the metabolism of the more abundant sediment-associated microbial communities that are presumably more capable of Fe reduction and associated release of As. This implies that an introduction of younger carbon to as of yet unaffected sediments (such as those comprising the deeper Pleistocene aquifer) could stimulate microbial communities and result in arsenic release.