No strong evidence of priming effects on the degradation of terrestrial plant detritus in estuarine sediments

EG was funded by the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland). MASTS was funded by the Scottish Funding Council (Grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. EG is currently funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) (grant number 1874) and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT). This study was funded by the MASTS Marine Biogeochemistry Forum small grants scheme and their support is gratefully acknowledged.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Occurrence of Priming in the Degradation of Lignocellulose in Marine Sediments

Funding: E.G. was funded by the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, grant reference HR09011). B.T. received funding from the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript Data Availability: All dataset files are available from the figshare database. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1554752. Correction 21 Apr 2016: The PLOS ONE Staff (2016) Correction: Occurrence of Priming in the Degradation of Lignocellulose in Marine Sediments. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0154365. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154365 View correction at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0154365Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Effect of spatial origin and hydrocarbon composition on bacterial consortia community structure and hydrocarbon biodegradation rates

This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council [NE/L00982X/1 to UW, JA and EG]. CGR was supported by a University Research Fellowship from the Royal Society [UF150571].Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Bacterial Community Response in Deep Faroe-Shetland Channel Sediments Following Hydrocarbon Entrainment With and Without Dispersant Addition

The authors acknowledge Dr. Alan McCue for assistance with GC-FID, the MRV Scotia scientists and crew for assistance with sample collection and Cruikshank Analytical Lab for Carbon content analysis. Amy Bode and Val Johnston are thanked for their assistance with experimental setup and sampling. Dr. Sophie Shaw (CGEBM) is acknowledged for her advice and guidance with molecular analysis. Funding LJP and hydrocarbon analytics were funded through MarCRF funds for a Ph.D. project designed by UW, JA, and AG and awarded to LJP. LDP and microbiological investigations were funded through NERC award no NE/L00982X/1 to UW, JA, and EG. CG-R is funded by a University Research Fellowship.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Carbon cycling in continental slope sediments : the role of benthic communities

Previous pulse-chase experiments have revealed a wide diversity of benthic response patterns to organic matter (OM) input depending on environmental setting, benthic community structure and experimental conditions i.e. quantity and quality of the added OM.  However, the mechanisms and interaction of environmental and biological factors that produce an observed response pattern are poorly understood. The present thesis set out to improve our current understanding on the set of parameters that determine benthic response patterns.  The core of this study was based on two pulse-chase experiments in two bathyal settings: the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) and the SW Cretan slope in the E. Mediterranean (E. Med).  The sub-zero temperatures in the FSC enabled the observation of the benthic response in “slow-motion” and showed that the response is not static but instead might go through various “phases”.  In the warm E. Med, C processing rates were considerably lower compared to previous measurements in adjacent regions.  The discrepancy was attributed to the particularly refractory sedimentary OM at the sampling station with apparent consequences for the physiological state of the bacterial community.  Both experiments showed that bacterial metabolism and its regulation is a key factor determining the reaction of the benthic community to OM inputs.  This thesis provided further understanding on the short-term fate of organic C in deep-sea sediments but also raised certain issues that could be addressed in future studies.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Agreements and contracts within copyright law

Contractual copyright law The theme of this dissertation is the contractual copyright law. Its main purpose is to describe the most important contractual types in the area of copyright law and the most important changes that Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, brought in relation to contractual copyright law as well. The thesis consists of nine chapters. The first chapter contains a brief overview of the most important sources of the contractual copyright law. The second chapter is focused on the copyright law and its specifics and also defines other concepts from the area of intellectual property. The third chapter deals with the impact of recodification of private law on the contractual copyright law. It is about the concrete changes, which influence the contractual copyright law significantly, both directly and indirectly. Besides other things, there are described the changes concerning licence agreement, contract for work, a new conception of a thing and adjustment of principles of the contractual law. The fourth chapter concentrates on the specifics of the transfer of author's right, or the legal prohibition of its transfer respectively. The fifth and the sixth chapter are about the legal regulation of licence agreement. The fifth chapter describes the term of licence in general and some its..

Partial least squares regression biplot (axes 1 and 2) showing differences in the proportional uptake of lignocellulosic carbon into PLFAs with time and treatment.

<p>Partial least squares regression biplot (axes 1 and 2) showing differences in the proportional uptake of lignocellulosic carbon into PLFAs with time and treatment.</p

How to Decarbonize Greece by Comparing Wind and PV Energy : A Land Eligibility Analysis

Funding This research received no external funding.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Emulating Deep-Sea Bioremediation: Oil Plume Degradation by Undisturbed Deep-Sea Microbial Communities Using a High-Pressure Sampling and Experimentation System

Hydrocarbon biodegradation rates in the deep-sea have been largely determined under atmospheric pressure, which may lead to non-representative results. In this work, we aim to study the response of deep-sea microbial communities of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) to oil contamination at in situ environmental conditions and provide representative biodegradation rates. Seawater from a 600 to 1000 m depth was collected using a high-pressure (HP) sampling device equipped with a unidirectional check-valve, without depressurization upon retrieval. The sample was then passed into a HP-reactor via a piston pump without pressure disruption and used for a time-series oil biodegradation experiment at plume concentrations, with and without dispersant application, at 10 MPa and 14 &deg;C. The experimental results demonstrated a high capacity of indigenous microbial communities in the deep EMS for alkane degradation regardless of dispersant application (&gt;70%), while PAHs were highly degraded when oil was dispersed (&gt;90%) and presented very low half-lives (19.4 to 2.2 days), compared to published data. To our knowledge, this is the first emulation study of deep-sea bioremediation using undisturbed deep-sea microbial communities

Emulating Deep-Sea Bioremediation: Oil Plume Degradation by Undisturbed Deep-Sea Microbial Communities Using a High-Pressure Sampling and Experimentation System

Hydrocarbon biodegradation rates in the deep-sea have been largely determined under atmospheric pressure, which may lead to non-representative results. In this work, we aim to study the response of deep-sea microbial communities of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) to oil contamination at in situ environmental conditions and provide representative biodegradation rates. Seawater from a 600 to 1000 m depth was collected using a high-pressure (HP) sampling device equipped with a unidirectional check-valve, without depressurization upon retrieval. The sample was then passed into a HP-reactor via a piston pump without pressure disruption and used for a time-series oil biodegradation experiment at plume concentrations, with and without dispersant application, at 10 MPa and 14 °C. The experimental results demonstrated a high capacity of indigenous microbial communities in the deep EMS for alkane degradation regardless of dispersant application (>70%), while PAHs were highly degraded when oil was dispersed (>90%) and presented very low half-lives (19.4 to 2.2 days), compared to published data. To our knowledge, this is the first emulation study of deep-sea bioremediation using undisturbed deep-sea microbial communities