“…The presence of some taxa such as Acidobacteriales and Sphingobacteriales (Cecotti et al 2018 , Bacosa et al 2020 ), suggest that putative hydrocarbon degraders may be present in the soil. Interestingly, anaerobic microorganisms such as Bacteroidales with members implicated in anaerobic alkane degradation (Kamarisima et al 2019 ), the archaea Woesearchaeles, which has been detected in methane seeps (Seabrook et al 2018 ) and the methanogen Methanoregula (Aburto et al 2009 ) were detected in both soil and sediment samples and have been found in hydrocarbon contaminated sites (Beaver et al 2016 , Park and Park 2018 , Seabrook et al 2018 ). These taxa were not abundant in the 2019 FOReSt soil samples, which were taken during similar times in their respective sampling year, suggesting that the freshwater microbial community has a degree of heterogeneity over time and/or space (Kharey et al 2024 ).…”