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  • Assessing marine chemical persistence relies on biodegradation tests.
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  • Understanding these effects is crucial for accurate persistence assessments.

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  • Quantify inoculum pre-exposure effects on biodegradation kinetics.
  • Assess biodegradation kinetic variations across marine locations and salinity gradients.
  • Explain kinetic differences using bacterial abundance and composition.

Main Methods:

  • Collected seawater from harbors and open waters across a salinity gradient.
  • Spiked samples with offshore oil platform produced water.
  • Incubated samples and determined primary biodegradation kinetics of 27 petrochemicals using GC-MS.

Main Results:

  • Biodegradation half-times were 2.9-3.6 times shorter in harbors vs. open waters.
  • Biodegradation kinetics varied by 1.2-1.9 times between open water samples.
  • Harbor pre-exposure significantly impacted kinetics; location and salinity influenced bacterial composition.

Conclusions:

  • Higher pre-exposure in harbors accelerated biodegradation.
  • Geographic location and salinity were key drivers of bacterial composition.
  • Faster harbor biodegradation was not explained by overall bacterial composition or diversity.