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Although the relationship between basal (BT), acquired (AT) and maintenance of acquired thermotolerace (MT) has been illustrated in a heat resistant tomato genotype and sensitive tomato genotypes, whether more resistant and sensitive tomato genotypes are satisfied with the rule and the relationships of antioxidant enzymes (AE) activity in three kinds of thermotolerance are not known. Here, we have...
Coal mining-induced surface subsidence causes many environmental problems and geological hazards, including damage to buildings, depletion of water resources, and land desertification. However, numerous coal resources in China are buried under buildings. To solve these problems, a solid waste backfill mining (SWBM) technique has been proposed to control the surface subsidence under buildings. This...
The excessive proliferation of filamentous green algae (FGA) has been considered to be one of the important factors that result in poor growth or even a decline in submerged macrophytes. This study aims to investigate why FGA has stronger growth advantage than that of submerged macrophytes in the co-culture system. Assimilation of nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients, kinetics, and interspecific nutrient...
Recently, the photocatalytic degradation technique with titanium dioxide (TiO₂) has been widely applied for the degradation of humic acid (HA) from aqueous solution due to its ability to achieve complete mineralization of organic contaminants. Because TiO₂ is the most commonly used semiconductor photocatalyst, efforts on the modification of TiO₂ in order to improve catalyst efficiency were presented...
Seed germination is an important reproductive pattern for submerged macrophytes. In order to investigate the effects of animal herbivory and water depth on seed germination and seedling survival of Vallisneria natans and Hydrilla verticillata, we conducted an in-situ field experiment at 3 water depths (0.5, 1, and 2 m) with net and non-net (control) groups in Hangzhou West Lake, China. The results...
Microzooplankton plays an important role in controlling the standing crop of phytoplankton and primary production. However, research on microzooplankton grazing has mainly focused on the ocean and only rarely on eutrophic lakes. In this study we investigated plankton community structures, microzooplankton grazing rates (m), and phytoplankton growth rates (μ) in order to explore microzooplankton grazing...
A photocatalyst comprised of strontium-doped TiO₂ coated on porous ceramic filter media (Sr-TiO₂/PCFM) was prepared using the heat-treated process. The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of catalyst dosage, initial HA concentrations, pH, and temperature on the adsorption and degradation of humic acid (HA) in a solution containing Sr-TiO₂/PCFM under irradiation of UV light...
For this study we applied a biological restoration technology combined with introducing filterfeeding bivalves (Hyriopsis cumingii), stocking planktivorous fish (silver carp), and replanting submerged macrophytes (Ceratophyllum demersum L.) in order to treat eutrophic water. The effects of this combined biological restoration measure on remedying eutrophic water were investigated, and the main mechanisms...
Near infrared spectroscopy and interval partial least-squares (iPLS) were applied to rapid quantitative analysis of thepoly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB), polyphosphate (Poly-P), and glycogen (Gly) during denitrifying phosphorus removal. Wavelet denoising was used to pretreat the raw near infrared spectroscopy, and the quantitative analysis models (iPLS models) of PHB, Poly-P, and GLY were established with...
A novel bioelectrochemically assisted constructed wetland system (BECW) was investigated using a laboratory-scale experimental apparatus for treating nitrate-contaminated water without an organic carbon source. The BECW was operated at 29 ±1 and 18 ±1ºC, respectively, to explore the effects of temperature on the autotrophic denitrification process. The results showed that higher TN removal efficiency...
An intermittent aerobic process has been developed to effectively remove nitrogen from polluted rivers. In addition, a chemometric model was developed to achieve simultaneous rapid analysis of total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, and nitrite nitrogen based on near-infrared spectroscopy data combined with a support vector machine. An intermittent aeration process showed that total nitrogen decreased from...
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) play an important role in the ecological restoration of water bodies, and it is crucial to understand the mechanism behind this. An experiment was performed in tanks consisting of three treatments: 1) without fish (control treatment, CON), 2) with fish unable to feed on submerged macrophytes (excretion treatment, EXCR), and 3) with fish swimming free (herbivory...
Submerged macrophyte restoration has been widely used to decrease phytoplankton and combat eutrophication in many temperate shallow lakes. However, very limited studies have been done to explore its potential in decreasing phytoplankton in subtropical shallow lakes. We hypothesize that macrophyte restoration can also decrease phytoplankton and shift community structures in subtropical shallow lakes...
Plants and microorganisms are the main biotic compartments for phytoaccumulation and metabolic transformation of organic contaminants in constructed wetlands (CWs). However, how they cope with special pollutants during the treatment process has not been well characterized. In this study, responses of Iris pseudoacorus (I. pseudoacorus) and microbial communities were intensively investigated in pilot-scale...
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are regarded as a risk mitigation strategy for alleviating the risks associated with agricultural runoff that contains pesticides. We investigated the partitioning pattern of wastewater-borne chlorpyrifos, a widely used organophosphorus pesticide, in non-vegetated and vegetated CWs. Removal rates of chlorpyrifos calculated from inflow and outflow concentrations ranged from...
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