Los efectos de la crisis económica en la brecha salarial

Jornada de promoción y difusión del SIMA dedicada a "Los salarios durante la crisis económica y su incidencia en el ASAC y los sistemas de solución de conflictos". Celebrada el día 16 de noviembre de 2016 y organizada por CCOO

Influence of Ecological Restoration on Mercury Mobility and Microbial Activities on Former Guyanese Mining Sites

As rehabilitation efforts in Guyana are recent, there is little information on the effect of different ecological rehabilitation protocols for Guyana's mining sites on biogeochemical cycles and mercury mobility. This study was conducted to assess the impact of different ecological restoration protocols on soil quality with the use of soil microbial indicators and by estimating the mercury mobility. We sampled soil from six rehabilitated mining sites in French Guyana with different ecological restoration procedures. We carried out measurements of enzymatic activities and an analysis of mercury environmental speciation to assess its potential toxicity according to a mobility gradient. The results obtained in this study show that the rehabilitation of mining sites has been carried out in a heterogeneous manner and soil quality is very variable, even in nearby sites. Sites that have been rehabilitated with fabaceous species have positive soil quality indicators. In addition, the results highlight a change in mercury mobility that is 82.1% correlated after co-inertia analysis with soil texture properties, which also confirms a direct effect of rehabilitation on mercury mobility. The non-restored sites had a much higher potential of mercury mobility and toxicity than the sites where ecological restoration was successful. These results highlight the positive effect of controlled rehabilitation and ecological restoration on microbiological activities and the potential toxicity of mercury

Influence of Ecological Restoration on Mercury Mobility and Microbial Activities on Former Guyanese Mining Sites

As rehabilitation efforts in Guyana are recent, there is little information on the effect of different ecological rehabilitation protocols for Guyana's mining sites on biogeochemical cycles and mercury mobility. This study was conducted to assess the impact of different ecological restoration protocols on soil quality with the use of soil microbial indicators and by estimating the mercury mobility. We sampled soil from six rehabilitated mining sites in French Guyana with different ecological restoration procedures. We carried out measurements of enzymatic activities and an analysis of mercury environmental speciation to assess its potential toxicity according to a mobility gradient. The results obtained in this study show that the rehabilitation of mining sites has been carried out in a heterogeneous manner and soil quality is very variable, even in nearby sites. Sites that have been rehabilitated with fabaceous species have positive soil quality indicators. In addition, the results highlight a change in mercury mobility that is 82.1% correlated after co-inertia analysis with soil texture properties, which also confirms a direct effect of rehabilitation on mercury mobility. The non-restored sites had a much higher potential of mercury mobility and toxicity than the sites where ecological restoration was successful. These results highlight the positive effect of controlled rehabilitation and ecological restoration on microbiological activities and the potential toxicity of mercury

Influence of Ecological Restoration on Mercury Mobility and Microbial Activities on Former Guyanese Mining Sites

As rehabilitation efforts in Guyana are recent, there is little information on the effect of different ecological rehabilitation protocols for Guyana’s mining sites on biogeochemical cycles and mercury mobility. This study was conducted to assess the impact of different ecological restoration protocols on soil quality with the use of soil microbial indicators and by estimating the mercury mobility. We sampled soil from six rehabilitated mining sites in French Guyana with different ecological restoration procedures. We carried out measurements of enzymatic activities and an analysis of mercury environmental speciation to assess its potential toxicity according to a mobility gradient. The results obtained in this study show that the rehabilitation of mining sites has been carried out in a heterogeneous manner and soil quality is very variable, even in nearby sites. Sites that have been rehabilitated with fabaceous species have positive soil quality indicators. In addition, the results highlight a change in mercury mobility that is 82.1% correlated after co-inertia analysis with soil texture properties, which also confirms a direct effect of rehabilitation on mercury mobility. The non-restored sites had a much higher potential of mercury mobility and toxicity than the sites where ecological restoration was successful. These results highlight the positive effect of controlled rehabilitation and ecological restoration on microbiological activities and the potential toxicity of mercury

Metabolising old soil carbon: simply a matter of simple organic matter?

International audienceBare fallow soils that have been deprived of fresh carbon inputs for prolonged periods contain mostly old, stable organic carbon. In order to shed light on the nature of this carbon, the functional diversity profiles (MicroResp(TM), Biolog(TM) and enzyme activity spectra) of the microbial communities of long-term bare-fallow soils were analysed and compared with those of the microbial communities from their cultivated counterparts. It was assumed that the catabolic and enzymatic profiles would reflect the type of substrates available to the microbial communities. The catabolic profiles suggested that the microbial communities in the long-term bare-fallow soil were exposed to a less diverse range of substrates and that these substrates tended to be of simpler molecular forms. Both the catabolic and enzyme activity profiles suggested that the microbial communities from the long-term bare-fallow soils were less adapted to using polymers. These results do not fit with the traditional view of old, stable carbon being composed of complex, recalcitrant polymers. Microbial communities from the long-term bare fallow soils tended to preferentially use substrates with higher nominal oxidation states of carbon relative to the substrates used by the microbial communities from the cultivated soils. This suggests that the microbial communities from the long-term bare-fallow soils were better adapted to using readily oxidizable, although energetically less rewarding, substrates. Microbial communities appear to adapt to the deprivation of fresh organic matter by using substrates that require little investment, such as enzyme production

Mercury behaviour and C, N, and P biogeochemical cycles during ecological restoration processes of old mining sites in French Guiana

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Total combined alignment (COII/16S/ITS2)

Total combined alignment (1784bp) for COII, 16rDNA and ITS2 sequences. Samples with at least one missing locus were discarded from the analyses, resulting in datasets of 64 Nasutitermes and two outgroup samples

Increasing the ability of a green roof to provide ecosystem services by adding organic matter and earthworms

International audienceThe aim of this study was to increase the ecosystem services provided by a green roof by ameliorating the biological and chemical properties of a commercial green roof substrate through the addition of earthworms and compost. We conducted a mesocosm (120 × 80 × 33 cm) experiment with a plant community comprising Hylotelephium maximum,Centaurea jacea, Lotus corniculatus, Koeleria glauca, and Dianthus carthusianorum. Two substrates were compared (i) a low complexity commercial green roof substrate with no alterations and (ii) a high complexity substrate with a layer of locally produced vermicompost and earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) placed on top of the commercial substrate. The mesocosms were placed on the roof of a 20 m high building and at ground level.Results show that the percent of vegetative cover on both substrates was lower in the roof mesocoms than on those placed at ground level. This is explained by climatic conditions, such as higher light intensity at roof level. The substrate with earthworms and vermicompost had significantly higher enzyme activity, microbial biomass, and metabolic activity. This resulted in more available nitrogen and phosphorus for plants, increased the plant biomass, floral nectar volume and sugar concentration which resulted in the flowers receiving more diverse and abundant insect pollinators. This is the first time that adding earthworms and compost to a green roof substrate has been shown to have a significant effect on plant growth and plant-pollinator interactions. These findings will help in designing green roof systems that are more efficient at preserving ecosystem services in urban areas

Nasutitermes and outgroup ITS2 sequences

Internal Transcribed Spacers 2 (ITS2) sequences for Nasutitermes samples and two outgroups. Genbank Accession Numbers and putative species are indicated