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Microorganisms Around Coal Mines and Their Application, 2nd Edition
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Microorganisms Around Coal Mines and Their Application, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 396

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Dr. Huan He

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School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: microbial community around coal mines; coal biotransformation; biogenic coal bed methane; coal-based solid waste recycling; ecological restoration of coal mines
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue, “Microorganisms Around Coal Mines and Their Application” (https://www.mdpi.com/si/168805).

Coal mines have provided essential fuel and resources for industrial development throughout human history. However, coal mining and utilization also cause serious environmental problems. To cope with climate change and mitigation, coal’s clean utilization and related pollution treatment are attracting more attention around the world. Coal mines offer environments with a large diversity of microorganisms. These microbes play an essential role in many geochemical cycles associated with coal mines, such as sulfur and carbon cycles, organic matter decomposition, mineral weathering, and so on. The biochemical reaction process of these microorganisms provides some potential applications associated with coal mines, including the removal of harmful elements, high value-added product recovery, biogenic coal bed methane, etc. This Special Issue will provide a platform to display the latest results, progress, and summary of the microorganisms associated with coal mines and the application of research into coal clean utilization, ecological remediation, and so on.

Dr. Huan He
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • microbial community around coal mines
  • bio-desulfurization of coal
  • bioleaching valuable elements from coal and its associated minerals
  • biotransformation of coal
  • biogenic coal bed methane
  • microbial treatment acid mine drainage from coal
  • coal mine microbial restoration

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Manure-Amended One-Year-Reclamation Promoted Soil Bacterial Phylotypic and Phenotypic Shifts in a Typical Coal-Mining Area
by Hongjuan Zhang, Yanmeng Shang, Shuning Bai, Meihua Fan, Xiaolong Sui, Huisheng Meng, Xianjun Hao, Xiangying Wang, Yulin Liu, Yi Li, Jianping Hong and Jie Zhang
Microorganisms 2025, 13(4), 699; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13040699 - 21 Mar 2025
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The initial variations in soil bacteria at the very beginning of reclamation still remains unclear. This study investigates the impact on bacterial communities of eight different treatments, including uncultivated land, unfertilized cultivation, chemical fertilizer, chemical fertilizer + bacterial fertilizer, manure, manure + bacterial [...] Read more.
The initial variations in soil bacteria at the very beginning of reclamation still remains unclear. This study investigates the impact on bacterial communities of eight different treatments, including uncultivated land, unfertilized cultivation, chemical fertilizer, chemical fertilizer + bacterial fertilizer, manure, manure + bacterial fertilizer, manure + chemical fertilizer, and manure + chemical fertilizer + bacterial fertilizer, during the short-term reclamation of coal-mining soils. The results showed that total nitrogen, available phosphorus, soil organic carbon, microbial biomass carbon, and alkaline phosphatase activity were significantly increased in all fertilization treatments compared to uncultivated land (p < 0.05). All fertilization treatments other than chemical fertilizer harbored significantly higher activities of urease, catalase, and invertase than unfertilized cultivation (p < 0.05). The bacterial communities structures in manure-amended treatments significantly differed in uncultivated land and unfertilized cultivation and were phylotypically shifted from oligotrophic to Actinobacteria-dominant copiotrophic traits, accompanied with phenotypic succession of the enriching characteristics of Gram-positive, biofilms formation, and stress tolerance. The co-occurrence network in manure-amended treatments harbored a simple co-occurrence network, indicating more productive soils than in no-manure treatments. Manure amendment, total nitrogen, microbial biomass carbon, invertase, catalase, and soil moisture were the key driving factors. Our study underscores the bacterial initialization characteristics promoted by manure at the very beginning of coal-mining reclamation. Full article
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