Microbial Dynamics Following the Macondo Oil Well Blowout across Gulf of Mexico Environments
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The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem, six years after the Macondo oil well blowout
The Gulf of Mexico ecosystem is a hotspot for biological diversity and supports a number of industries, from tourism to fishery production to oil and gas exploration, that serve as the economic backbone of Gulf coast states. The Gulf is a natural hydrocarbon basin, rich with stores of oil and gas that lie in reservoirs deep beneath the seafloor. The natural seepage of hydrocarbons across the Gu...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioScience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1525-3244,0006-3568
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu121