Wastewater with high NH_4^+-N is difficult to treat by traditional methods.So in this paper,a wild strain of photosynthetic bacteria was used for high NH_4^+-N wastewater treatment together with biomass recovery.Isola...Wastewater with high NH_4^+-N is difficult to treat by traditional methods.So in this paper,a wild strain of photosynthetic bacteria was used for high NH_4^+-N wastewater treatment together with biomass recovery.Isolation,identification,and characterization of the microorganism were carried out.The strain was inoculated to the biological wastewater treatment unit.The impacts of important factors were examined,including temperature,dissolved oxygen,and light intensity.Results showed that photosynthetic bacteria could effectively treat high NH_4^+-N wastewater.For wastewater with NH_4^+-N of 2300 mg·L^(-1),COD/N=1.0,98.3%of COD was removed,and cell concentration increased by 43 times.The optimal conditions for the strain's cell growth and wastewater treatment were 30℃,dissolved oxygen of 0.5-1.5 mg·L^(-1) and a light intensity of 4000 lx.Photosynthetic bacteria could bear a lower C/N ratio than bacteria in a traditional wastewater treatment process,but the NH_4^+-N removal was only 20%-40%because small molecule carbon source was used prior to NH_4^+-N.Also,the use of photosynthetic bacteria in chicken manure wastewater containing NH4+-N about 7000 mg·L^(-1) proved that photosynthetic bacteria could remove NH_4^+-N in a real case,finally,83.2%of NH_4^+-N was removed and 66.3%of COD was removed.展开更多
The distributions of N utilizing bacteria (denitrifying bacteria and ammonifying bacteria) ,P utilizing bacteria (organic phosphobacteria and inorganic phosphobacteria) and heterotrophic bacteria in the Changjiang Est...The distributions of N utilizing bacteria (denitrifying bacteria and ammonifying bacteria) ,P utilizing bacteria (organic phosphobacteria and inorganic phosphobacteria) and heterotrophic bacteria in the Changjiang Estuary,and the roles of main environmental factors in distributing bacteria,are explored with observations from two cruises in June and August 2006.Comparisons between the two important periods of initial hypoxia phase (June) and developed hypoxia phase (August) show differences in both bacterial distributions and the associated main environmental factors.First,the primary group of ammonifying bacteria has larger magnitude with spatial maximum value in the hypoxic stations related to sediment in August.The phosphobacterial abundance and detection rates in August are much lower than those in June,but the denitrifying bacterial abundance becomes greater in August.However,the difference of heterotrophic bacterial abundance between June and August is not obvious.Second,main environmental factors influencing bacteria vary from initial hypoxia phase to developed hypoxia phase.Two parameters (salinity and NO3) in surface water and five environmental parameters (pH,salinity,PO43,NO3and temperature) in bottom water and surface sediment play major roles in the bacterial abundance in June,while different parameter combinations (salinity and PO43) in surface water and different parameter combinations (DO,DOC,NO3,PO43 and pH) in bottom water and surface sediment play major roles in August.Moreover,the bottom bacteria distributions in area south of 31 N are related to the position of the Taiwan Warm Current in June.The bacterial abundance and distribution may respond to the environmental change in the hypoxia processes of initial phase and developed phase.During the hypoxia processes,the whole structure of bacterial functional groups probably turns to different states,causing the recycling of nutrient regeneration and aggravating hypoxia regionally.展开更多
Aims The importance of density-dependent mortality in maintaining tree species diversity is widely accepted.However,density-dependent effects may vary in magnitude and direction with different abiotic conditions in fo...Aims The importance of density-dependent mortality in maintaining tree species diversity is widely accepted.However,density-dependent effects may vary in magnitude and direction with different abiotic conditions in forests.Theoretical predictions surmise that density-dependent effects may vary with soil available nitrogen(AN),but this still needs to be tested.Methods We analyzed the density-dependent effects on survival of newly germinated seedlings for 18 common species based on a long-term seedling census across environmental gradients in a subtropical forest.We also conducted a root lesion detection experiment for five species to investigate the potential effects of pathogens on variation in density-dependent disease between rich and poor AN environments.Important Findings The seedling dynamics analysis revealed that the strength of density-dependent effects increased with AN,shifting from neutral or positive with low AN to negative with high AN.Three of the five tree species had stronger density-dependent effects on root lesions in rich AN environments than in poor AN environments,which is consistent with the results of a long-term seedling dynamics analysis.We also found higher species diversity in rich AN environments,which may be promoted by the stronger negative density-dependent effects.Both the seedling dynamic analysis and root lesion detection experiment revealed stronger negative density-dependent effects in higher AN environment,resulting from stronger disease pressure by soil pathogens.Our study emphasized the importance of considering context dependence when testing the density dependence hypotheses.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51278489)
文摘Wastewater with high NH_4^+-N is difficult to treat by traditional methods.So in this paper,a wild strain of photosynthetic bacteria was used for high NH_4^+-N wastewater treatment together with biomass recovery.Isolation,identification,and characterization of the microorganism were carried out.The strain was inoculated to the biological wastewater treatment unit.The impacts of important factors were examined,including temperature,dissolved oxygen,and light intensity.Results showed that photosynthetic bacteria could effectively treat high NH_4^+-N wastewater.For wastewater with NH_4^+-N of 2300 mg·L^(-1),COD/N=1.0,98.3%of COD was removed,and cell concentration increased by 43 times.The optimal conditions for the strain's cell growth and wastewater treatment were 30℃,dissolved oxygen of 0.5-1.5 mg·L^(-1) and a light intensity of 4000 lx.Photosynthetic bacteria could bear a lower C/N ratio than bacteria in a traditional wastewater treatment process,but the NH_4^+-N removal was only 20%-40%because small molecule carbon source was used prior to NH_4^+-N.Also,the use of photosynthetic bacteria in chicken manure wastewater containing NH4+-N about 7000 mg·L^(-1) proved that photosynthetic bacteria could remove NH_4^+-N in a real case,finally,83.2%of NH_4^+-N was removed and 66.3%of COD was removed.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB428903)the Chinese offshore Investigation and Assessment Program(908-01-BC06)+5 种基金the National Marine Public Welfare Research Project of China(201305043-3)the Innovative Team of Key Science and Technology on Marine Aquaculture of Zhejiang Province(2010R50025)the Marine Science Foundation of State Oceanic Administration for Youth(2013140)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41306112)the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(LY13D060004)the Basic Scientific Research Fundof SIO,China(JG1 311,JG1312)
文摘The distributions of N utilizing bacteria (denitrifying bacteria and ammonifying bacteria) ,P utilizing bacteria (organic phosphobacteria and inorganic phosphobacteria) and heterotrophic bacteria in the Changjiang Estuary,and the roles of main environmental factors in distributing bacteria,are explored with observations from two cruises in June and August 2006.Comparisons between the two important periods of initial hypoxia phase (June) and developed hypoxia phase (August) show differences in both bacterial distributions and the associated main environmental factors.First,the primary group of ammonifying bacteria has larger magnitude with spatial maximum value in the hypoxic stations related to sediment in August.The phosphobacterial abundance and detection rates in August are much lower than those in June,but the denitrifying bacterial abundance becomes greater in August.However,the difference of heterotrophic bacterial abundance between June and August is not obvious.Second,main environmental factors influencing bacteria vary from initial hypoxia phase to developed hypoxia phase.Two parameters (salinity and NO3) in surface water and five environmental parameters (pH,salinity,PO43,NO3and temperature) in bottom water and surface sediment play major roles in the bacterial abundance in June,while different parameter combinations (salinity and PO43) in surface water and different parameter combinations (DO,DOC,NO3,PO43 and pH) in bottom water and surface sediment play major roles in August.Moreover,the bottom bacteria distributions in area south of 31 N are related to the position of the Taiwan Warm Current in June.The bacterial abundance and distribution may respond to the environmental change in the hypoxia processes of initial phase and developed phase.During the hypoxia processes,the whole structure of bacterial functional groups probably turns to different states,causing the recycling of nutrient regeneration and aggravating hypoxia regionally.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830010,31870403,31770466 and 31500334)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Project No.2017YFA0605100)the Zhang-Hongda Science Foundation of SYSU.
文摘Aims The importance of density-dependent mortality in maintaining tree species diversity is widely accepted.However,density-dependent effects may vary in magnitude and direction with different abiotic conditions in forests.Theoretical predictions surmise that density-dependent effects may vary with soil available nitrogen(AN),but this still needs to be tested.Methods We analyzed the density-dependent effects on survival of newly germinated seedlings for 18 common species based on a long-term seedling census across environmental gradients in a subtropical forest.We also conducted a root lesion detection experiment for five species to investigate the potential effects of pathogens on variation in density-dependent disease between rich and poor AN environments.Important Findings The seedling dynamics analysis revealed that the strength of density-dependent effects increased with AN,shifting from neutral or positive with low AN to negative with high AN.Three of the five tree species had stronger density-dependent effects on root lesions in rich AN environments than in poor AN environments,which is consistent with the results of a long-term seedling dynamics analysis.We also found higher species diversity in rich AN environments,which may be promoted by the stronger negative density-dependent effects.Both the seedling dynamic analysis and root lesion detection experiment revealed stronger negative density-dependent effects in higher AN environment,resulting from stronger disease pressure by soil pathogens.Our study emphasized the importance of considering context dependence when testing the density dependence hypotheses.