Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria

Biography

Numbere AO is currently working at Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, located in Nigeria. His research interest includes Evolution, Ecology, Systematics, Environmental biology, Mangrove ecology.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Bioaccumulation of Total Hydrocarbon Content by Three Mangrove Species (Rhizophora, Laguncularia, Avicennia) in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
  Author(s): Numbere AO*
  
  Bioaccumulation of total hydrocarbon content (THC) in mangrove is a bottom up effect. Leave, root, seed and stem samples were collected from red, black and white mangroves from highly and lowly polluted locations. Total hydrocarbon analysis was done with atomic absorption spectrophotometric method using HARCH DR 890 colorimeter (wavelength~420 nm). The result indicates that there is significant difference in THC between species (F2, 105=9.82, P<0.001) and parts (F3, 104=7.82, P<0.001) of mangroves. Red mangroves had the highest bioaccumulation of THC as compared to black and white mangroves (Tukey test, α=0.05). Leaves had the highest concentration of THC in the order of leave>seed>root>stem. For red mangroves THC ranged from 0.47 mg/l in root to 25.38 mg/l in the leave, for white mangroves THC ranged from 1.08 mg/l in stem to 5.90 mg/l in leave; for black mangrov.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2157-7463.19.10.387

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