caa a22 4500 46319487X CHVBK 20180406164920.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10669-007-9034-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10669-007-9034-7 Hydrocarbon contamination of a terrestrial ecosystem: the case of Oshire-2 oil spill in Niger Delta, Nigeria [Elektronische Daten] [Leo Osuji, Ugochukwu Opiah] An oil-impacted site at Oshire-2 in Niger Delta (Nigeria) was delimited by reconnaissance. Surface and subsurface soils were analyzed for total extractable hydrocarbon content and some physicochemical characteristics. The oil-impacted soils had a mean hydrocarbon content of 1.99×103mg/kg (no overlap in Standard Error at 95% Confidence Limit) and were characterized by an isohyperthermic temperature regime >22°C, high moisture content, high acidity (low soil-pH) and low electrical conductivity. The intense infusion of degradable hydrocarbons at the site must have stimulated aerobic and anaerobic microbial metabolism and so, as oxygen became limiting, utilization of alternate electron acceptors produced an increasingly reducing environment. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Hydrocarbons nationallicence Oshire-2 oil spill nationallicence Contamination nationallicence Soil nationallicence Osuji Leo Petroleum Chemistry Research Group, Department of Industrial and Pure Chemistry, University of Port Harcourt, PMB, 5323, Choba Port Harcourt, Nigeria aut Opiah Ugochukwu Petroleum Chemistry Research Group, Department of Industrial and Pure Chemistry, University of Port Harcourt, PMB, 5323, Choba Port Harcourt, Nigeria aut The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/3(2007-09-01), 337-340 0251-1088 27:3<337 2007 27 10669 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9034-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9034-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Osuji Leo Petroleum Chemistry Research Group, Department of Industrial and Pure Chemistry, University of Port Harcourt, PMB, 5323, Choba Port Harcourt, Nigeria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Opiah Ugochukwu Petroleum Chemistry Research Group, Department of Industrial and Pure Chemistry, University of Port Harcourt, PMB, 5323, Choba Port Harcourt, Nigeria aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/3(2007-09-01), 337-340 0251-1088 27:3<337 2007 27 10669 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer