The results from this work demonstrated the relationship between vegetation cover and the diversity of soil bacterial communities from two sites in an abandoned unmined porphyry deposit at Bosque del Pueblo, Adjuntas, PR. ...

Diatoms are a group of unicellular algae enclosed in a siliceous exoskeleton called the frustule. This ornamented structure allows for taxonomic identification. Diatoms are frequently used as indicators to monitor the ...

Recent studies suggest that the oceanic nitrogen budget is unbalanced, primarily due to a high nitrogen removal in contrast to the fixation rate. This imbalance likely results from denitrification activity in continental ...

Previous studies indicate that fast growing plants with high biomass could be employed for the remediation of lead (Pb) contaminated sites. Phytoextraction of Pb in a contaminated substrate was evaluated. To evaluate a ...

Biological wastewater treatment systems are recognized today as the most common biotechnological application in the World. But despite of their widely distributed use, there is a very limited knowledge of their distinctive ...

The biogeography of microbial communities in tropical environment is poorly understood. Recent works in soil microbial ecology have focused on cataloging the diversity of soil bacteria, but few of them have documented how ...

For over 60 years, the Anones Lagoon at the island-municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico, has been extensively subjected to ordnance-related pollution caused by military exercises carried out by the US Navy. After military ...

Culture and culture-independent techniques were used to characterize the microbial community structure within a fluidized bed reactor (FBR) used to remediate a dieselcontaminated aquifer. Under normal operating conditions, ...

The bacterial diversity used to bioremediate gasoline contaminated groundwater in a fluidized bed reactor (FBR) was determined. Isolation and characterization of bacterial populations from the bioremediation system was ...

Biodegradation of biodiesel from an industrial impacted sandy soil (Guayanilla Bay, Puerto Rico) and bacterial diversity was evaluated. Soil samples were amended with 2,500 mg/Kg of biodiesel and incubated during 41 days ...