Effect of Contamination by Phosphate Mining Effluent on Biocrust Microbial Community Structure and Cyanobacterial Diversity in a Hot Dry Desert.

Ali Nejidat, Damiana Diaz-Reck, Eli Zaady

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Article in Microorganisms, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ali NejidatDepartment of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-6191-9617

Damiana Diaz-ReckDepartment of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel.

Eli ZaadyKatif Research & Development Center, The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, P.O. Box 100, Netivot 8771002, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-3304-534X

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The authors thank Hamaarag-Israel's National Ecosystem Assessment Program-and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority for conducting a monitoring project in the Ashalim Nature Reserve and for funding the research. no

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Abstract

This study investigates the long-term effects of catastrophic phosphate mining effluent contamination on the biocrust microbial community structure in sections of the ephemeral Ashalim Stream, Negev Desert, Israel. Microbial communities were characterized using next-generation sequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments, conducted 1.5 and 5 years after the contamination event, across five stream strips. Samples from the nearby, uncontaminated Gmalim Stream served as controls. Biocrusts from Ashalim showed higher relative abundances of the phyla Actinobacteria and Firmicutes compared to Gmalim, whereas Chloroflexi were more prevalent in the controls. At the genus level,

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biological soil crustsenvironmental disturbanceephemeral streamsmicrobial diversitymining effluent impactNegev Desert

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PMID41304265

DOI10.3390/microorganisms13112580

PMCPMC12654040

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