Biodegradation of alkanes and PAHs in crude oil as affected by temperature, nutrients and initial bacterial community in deep and surface waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico

We sampled surface and deep-sea waters near the DWH site, amended with oil and incubated under different temperatures, nutrients, and initial microbial community. The data here is the residual total alkanes and PAHs in the different treatments after 5, 12, 30 and 50 days of incubation.