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The effects of different bioremediation methods on restoration of the oil-polluted peat soil (Histosol) in the northernmost taiga subzone of European Russia was studied. The population dynamics of microorganisms belonging to different trophic groups (hydrocarbon-oxidizing, ammonifying, nitrifying, and oligonitrophilic) were analyzed together with data on the soil enzyme (catalase and dehydrogenase) activities, population densities of soil microfauna groups, their structures, and states of phytocenoses during a sevenyear-long succession. The remediation with biopreparations Roder composed of oil-oxidizing microorganisms-Roder with Rhodococcus rubber and R. erythropolis and Universal with Rhodotorula glutinis and Rhodococcus sp.-was more efficient than the agrochemical and technical remediation. It was concluded that the biopreparations activate microbiological oil destruction, thereby accelerating restoration succession of phytocenosis and zoocenosis. The succession of dominant microfauna groups was observed: the dipteran larvae and Mesostigmata mites predominant at the early stages were replaced by collembolans at later stages. The pioneer oribatid mite species were Tectocepheus velatus, Oppiella nova, Liochthonius sellnicki, Oribatula tibialis, and Eupelops sp.
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Original Russian Text © E.N. Melekhina, M.Yu. Markarova, T.N. Shchemelinina, E.M. Anchugova, V.A. Kanev, 2015, published in Pochvovedenie, 2015, No. 6, pp. 740–750.
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Melekhina, E.N., Markarova, M.Y., Shchemelinina, T.N. et al. Secondary successions of biota in oil-polluted peat soil upon different biological remediation methods. Eurasian Soil Sc. 48, 643–653 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229315060071
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