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The mechanism most often advanced to account for
the observed bacterial reduction of HCt in soils and
aquifer materials involves the production of extracellular
polymers (Allison 1947; Shaw et al. 1985). Vandevivere &
Baveye (1992a) showed, however, that the production of
extracellular polymers was not necessary for severe bacterial
clogging to occur. Other mechanisms that may come into play
and have been invoked occasionally in the literature include
plugging of the pores by the bacterial cells themselves
(Gupta & Swartzendruber 1962), precipitation in soil pores
of iron and magnesium sulphides resulting from the activity
of sulphate-reducing bacteria (Ford & Beville 1968; Van
Beek 1984), deposition of iron hydroxides or manganese
oxides produced by iron bacteria (Van Beek 1984), or
the production of gas (Ahmad 1963), in particular by
denitrifiers (Lance & Whisler 1972; Oberdorfer & Peterson
1985) and possibly by methanogens (Swartzendruber &
Gupta 1964; Gupta & Swartzendruber 1964; Reynolds et al.
1992). |
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