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Zhu Y, Huo Y, Zhang M, Li Z, Huang Y. Study on the synergistic mechanism of proline in the treatment of high-salt phenolic wastewater by short-time aerobic digestion process. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2024; 197:90. [PMID: 39708252 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-024-13552-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2024] [Accepted: 12/09/2024] [Indexed: 12/23/2024]
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High salt concentrations pose a significant challenge to the efficiency of activated sludge (AS) in phenolic wastewater treatment. As a cellular osmoprotectant, proline (Pro) has the capacity to increase the salt tolerance of microbes in AS, hence improving the efficiency of phenolic wastewater degradation. Nevertheless, the precise mechanism behind this enhancement remains ambiguous. This study utilized short-time aerobic digestion (STAD) to examine the kinetics of phenol degradation (250-750 mg/L) by AS under high-salinity stress (2-8%), with the inclusion of Pro (115-575 mg/L) as an auxiliary agent. The process was optimized via response surface methodology (RSM), and the mitigating effect of Pro on microorganisms in AS subjected to salt stress was evaluated. The results demonstrated that the addition of 468 mg/L Pro substantially improved the ability of AS to withstand high-salinity wastewater with high phenol concentrations, which had a salinity of 5.1% and a phenol concentration of 531 mg/L. The addition led to a mitigation rate of the phenol degradation constant k0 of 38.59 ± 1.54%, resulting in enhanced degradation of chemical oxygen demand (COD), NH4+-N, and NO3--N. In addition, the prolonged presence of Pro increased AS dehydrogenase activity (DHA) by 24.82% after 30 days. Microbial community analysis demonstrated that Pro promoted the proliferation of functional microorganisms such as Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Acinetobacter, and Comamonas. These bacteria have essential functions in the elimination of phenol and organic matter, as well as the absorption of nitrogen. This study emphasizes the impact of Pro as a compatible solute in the treatment of high-salinity and high-phenol wastewater in the STAD process.
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- Yongqiang Zhu
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China
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- Shanghai Accele-Tech Environmental Protection Co., Ltd, Shanghai, 200435, China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China
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Zhang J, Yang B, Wang H, Dong J, Zhao X, Gao Y, Jiang H. Integrated microbial activities and isotope analysis unveil the effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles on straw decomposition in agricultural soil. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 957:177460. [PMID: 39542265 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2024] [Revised: 10/31/2024] [Accepted: 11/06/2024] [Indexed: 11/17/2024]
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Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) are widely applied across multiple industries and ultimately accumulate in water and soil environments, raising significant concern about their toxicity to organisms in various ecosystems. While the effects of ZnONPs on microflora have been reported, their ecotoxicity to specific biogeochemical process and microbial activities and metabolic functions remains relatively unclear. In this study, a 56-day microcosmic experiment was conducted to explore the toxicity mechanism of ZnONPs (1000 mg kg-1 soil) on straw decomposition, soil organic carbon (SOC) mineralization, and changes in microbial activities and functions in agricultural soil with general wheat straw incorporation using the 13C isotope tracer technique. The results demonstrated that straw incorporation increased the rate of CO2 emission and promoted the straw decomposition. However, the presence of ZnONPs reduced the CO2 release rates during incubation period although the rates were still higher than those under the control due to straw incorporation. CO2 emissions from straw decomposition were dominant before the 7th day of incubation. After day 7, CO2 emissions from the mineralization of original SOC became dominant with their contribution increasing from 17.52 % on day 7 to 60.20 % on day 56 under straw incorporation. ZnONPs affected soil carbon composition and straw decomposition by inhibiting enzyme activity and reducing the abundance of functional genes, indirectly impacting CO2 release. Community Level Physiological Profiles (CLPP) showed ZnONPs reduced functional richness indices, including Shannon-Weiner index (H) and McIntosh index (U), and altered C substrate utilization patterns. This may be due to the direct toxicity of zinc ion (Zn2+) released by ZnONPs to the soil bacterial community. The findings provide insights into the toxicity effects of emerging contaminants on carbon transformation from straw and SOC. Further investigations involving metabolomics are required to reveal the essential effects of ZnONPs on biogeochemical cycle of elements in agricultural soil.
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- Jiahui Zhang
- School of Water Conservancy and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
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- School of Water Conservancy and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China; Shandong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Ecological Carbon Sink and Capture Utilization, Jinan 250022, China
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- School of Water Conservancy and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China; Shandong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Ecological Carbon Sink and Capture Utilization, Jinan 250022, China.
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- School of Water Conservancy and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
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- Jinan Environmental Research Academy, Jinan 250098, China
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- Ecology Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Jinan 250103, China
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- School of Water Conservancy and Environment, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
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Mustafa G, Hussain S, Liu Y, Ali I, Liu J, Bano H. Microbiology of wetlands and the carbon cycle in coastal wetland mediated by microorganisms. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 954:175734. [PMID: 39244048 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Revised: 08/13/2024] [Accepted: 08/21/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024]
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Wetlands are highly diverse and productive and are among the three most important natural ecosystems worldwide, among which coastal wetlands are particularly valuable because they have been shown to provide important functions for human populations. They provide a wide variety of ecological services and values that are critical to humans. Their value may increase with increased use or scarcity owing to human progress, such as agriculture and urbanization. The potential assessment for one coastal wetland habitat to be substituted by another landscape depends on analyzing complex microbial communities including fungi, bacteria, viruses, and protozoa common in different wetlands. Moreover, the number and quality of resources in coastal wetlands, including nutrients and energy sources, are also closely related to the size and variety of the microbial communities. In this review, we discussed types of wetlands, how human activities had altered the carbon cycle, how climate change affected wetland services and functions, and identified some ways to promote their conservation and restoration that provide a range of benefits, including carbon sequestration. Current data also indicated that the coastal ocean acted as a net sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide in a post-industrial age and continuous human pressure would make a major impact on the evolution the coastal ocean carbon budget in the future. Coastal wetland ecosystems contain diverse microbial communities, and their composition of microbial communities will tend to change rapidly in response to environmental changes, as can serve as significant markers for identifying these changes in the future.
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- Ghulam Mustafa
- Key Laboratory of integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes of Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes of Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Key Laboratory of integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes of Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
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- Key Laboratory of integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes of Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes of Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes of Ministry of Education, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; Department of Zoology, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan
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Jiang Y, Wang M, Yan X, Liu M, Guo X. Exotic plants introduction changed soil nutrient cycle and symbiotic relationship with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in wetland ecological projects. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1410009. [PMID: 39049854 PMCID: PMC11266298 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1410009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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In the process of applying exotic plants to wetland ecological restoration, insufficiently evaluated alien species may exhibit strong competitiveness and fecundity. Once introduced, they can displace native flora, disrupt the original ecological balance, diminish biodiversity, and even induce ecosystem dysfunction. Furthermore, exotic plants have the potential to alter soil microbial community structure, including the composition and activity of beneficial symbiotic microorganisms such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), thereby impacting soil nutrient cycling and interplant nutrient competition. Here, we conducted three consecutive years of sampling experiments to investigate the succession of AMF communities associated with the invasive plant Spartina alterniflora along an initial introduction chronosequence, and to identify the key environmental factors influencing its response to S. alterniflora invasion. Our findings reveal that early-stage invasion by S. alterniflora alters the composition of soil AMF communities with unclassified_c__Glomeromycetes and Glomus-viscosum-VTX00063 consistently dominating. Additionally, as the duration of introduction increases, the diversity of rhizosphere soil AMF significantly decreases, while its evenness remains relatively stable. It's indicated that soil ω, AN, AK and N/P ratio were the main influencing factors of the integral AMF community. Notably, soil available phosphorus (AP) emerges as a positive influence on the important AMF taxa. The results confirm the mutual feedback effect between the invasion of the perennial herb S. alterniflora and AMF, in which specific AMF assist in nutrient absorption to promote S. alterniflora growth, potentially facilitating its rapid and successful invasion of new habitats. Given the likely differential effects of AMF communities on various plant species, our findings could contribute to anticipating future AMF-mediated effects during the introduction of alien plants.
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- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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Hu H, Liu S, Li D, Zhou A, Cai W, Luo J, Liu Z, He Z, Yue X, Liu W. Sulfate-reducing bacteria decreases fractional pressure of H 2 to accelerate short-chain fatty acids production from waste activated sludge fermentation assisted with zero-valent iron activated sulfite pretreatment. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 931:172898. [PMID: 38697543 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2024] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
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The production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) is constrained by substrate availability and the increased fractional pressure of H2 emitted by acidogenic/fermentative bacteria during anaerobic fermentation of waste activated sludge (WAS). This study introduced a novel approach employing zero-valent iron (ZVI)-activated sulfite pretreatment combined with H2-consuming sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) mediation to improve SCFAs, especially acetate production from WAS fermentation. Experimental results showed that the combined ZVI-activated sulfite and incomplete-oxidative SRB (io-SRB) process achieved a peak SCFAs production of 868.11 mg COD/L, with acetate accounting for 80.55 %, which was 7.90- and 2.18-fold higher than that obtained from raw WAS fermentation, respectively. This could be firstly attributed to the SO4- and OH generated by ZVI-activated sulfite, which significantly promoted WAS decomposition, e.g., soluble proteins and carbohydrates increased 14.3- and 10.8-fold, respectively, over those in raw WAS. The biodegradation of dissolved organic matter was subsequently enhanced by the synergistic interaction and H2 transfer between anaerobic fermentation bacteria (AFB) and io-SRB. The positive and negative correlations among AFB, nitrate-reducing bacteria (NRB) and the io-SRB consortia were revealed by molecular ecological network (MEN) and Mantel test. Moreover, the expression of functional genes was also improved, for instance, in relation to acetate formation, the relative abundances of phosphate acetyltransferase and acetate kinase was 0.002 % and 0.005 % higher than that in the control test, respectively. These findings emphasized the importance of sulfate radicals-based oxidation pretreatment and the collaborative relationships of multifunctional microbes on the value-added chemicals and energy recovery from sludge fermentation.
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- Huitao Hu
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; Shanxi Engineer Research Institute of Sludge Disposition and Resources, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030000, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; Shanxi Engineer Research Institute of Sludge Disposition and Resources, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030000, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; Shanxi Engineer Research Institute of Sludge Disposition and Resources, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030000, China.
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- School of Environment, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
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- College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; Shanxi Engineer Research Institute of Sludge Disposition and Resources, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030000, China
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- School of Environment and Municipal Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Shanxi 710055, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; Shanxi Engineer Research Institute of Sludge Disposition and Resources, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030000, China
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Wu X, Yang F, Zhang J, Gao F, Hu YC, Yang K, Wang P. Biochar's role in improving pakchoi quality and microbial community structure in rhizosphere soil. PeerJ 2024; 12:e16733. [PMID: 38515457 PMCID: PMC10956520 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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Background Biochar amendments enhance crop productivity and improve agricultural quality. To date, studies on the correlation between different amounts of biochar in pakchoi (Brassica campestris L.) quality and rhizosphere soil microorganisms are limited, especially in weakly alkaline soils. The experiment was set up to explore the effect of different concentrations of biochar on vegetable quality and the correlation between the index of quality and soil bacterial community structure changes. Methods The soil was treated in the following ways via pot culture: the blank control (CK) without biochar added and with biochar at different concentrations of 1% (T1), 3% (T2), 5% (T3), and 7% (T4). Here, we investigatedthe synergistic effect of biochar on the growth and quality of pakchoi, soil enzymatic activities, and soil nutrients. Microbial communities from pakchoi rhizosphere soil were analyzed by Illumina MiSeq. Results The results revealed that adding 3% biochar significantly increased plant height, root length, and dry weight of pakchoi and increased the contents of soluble sugars, soluble proteins, Vitamin C (VC), cellulose, and reduced nitrate content in pakchoi leaves. Meanwhile, soil enzyme activities and available nutrient content in rhizosphere soil increased. This study demonstrated that the the microbial community structure of bacteria in pakchoi rhizosphere soil was changed by applying more than 3% biochar. Among the relatively abundant dominant phyla, Gemmatimonadetes, Anaerolineae, Deltaproteobacteria and Verrucomicrobiae were reduced, and Alphaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Bacteroidia, and Acidimicrobiia relative abundance increased. Furthermore, adding 3% biochar reduced the relative abundance of Gemmatimonas and increased the relative abundances of Ilumatobacter, Luteolibacter, Lysobacter, Arthrobacter, and Mesorhizobium. The nitrate content was positively correlated with the abundance of Gemmatimonadetes, and the nitrate content was significantly negatively correlated with the relative abundance of Ilumatobacter. Carbohydrate transport and metabolism in the rhizosphere soil of pakchoi decreased, and lipid transport and metabolism increased after biochar application. Conclusion Overall, our results indicated that applying biochar improved soil physicochemical states and plant nutrient absorption, and affected the abundance of dominant bacterial groups (e.g., Gemmatimonadetes and Ilumatobacter), these were the main factors to increase pakchoi growth and promote quality of pakchoi. Therefore, considering the growth, quality of pakchoi, and soil environment, the effect of using 3% biochar is better.
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- Xia Wu
- College of Horticulture and Landscape, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
- Post-doctoral Workstation of Agricultural Products Processing Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center (Daqing), Ministry of Agriculture, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
- Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Aûairs, Key Laboratory of Low-carbon Green Agriculture Carbon in Northeastrn China, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Horticulture and Landscape, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Agriculture, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Horticulture and Landscape, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Horticulture and Landscape, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
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- Post-doctoral Workstation of Agricultural Products Processing Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center (Daqing), Ministry of Agriculture, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
- College of Agriculture, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
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- Post-doctoral Workstation of Agricultural Products Processing Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center (Daqing), Ministry of Agriculture, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
- College of Agriculture, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
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Ren Z, Jiang W, Sun N, Shi J, Zhang D, Zhang J, Wang Z, Yang J, Yu J, Lv Z. Responses of the structure and function of microbes in Yellow River Estuary sediments to different levels of mercury. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 190:106097. [PMID: 37441819 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Revised: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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The health and stability of the estuary of the Yellow River ecosystem have come under increasing pressure from land-based inputs of heavy metals. While it is known that heavy metals affect the function and health of the microbial community, there remains little knowledge on the responses of the microbial community to heavy metals, particularly highly toxic mercury. The research aimed to characterize the responses of the sediment microbial community of the estuary of the Yellow River to different levels of mercury stress. Estuary sediment samples were collected for microbial community analysis, measurement of mercury [including total mercury (THg) and methylmercury (MeHg)], and measurement of other physicochemical factors, including pH, total organic carbon (TOC), sulfide, iron ratio (Fe3+/Fe2+), ammonium salt (NH4+), and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). The application of 16S rRNA sequencing identified 60 phyla of bacteria, dominated by Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes. Stations with higher THg or MeHg and lower microbial abundance and diversity were generally distributed further outside of the estuary. Besides mercury, the measured physicochemical factors had impacts on microbial diversities and distribution. Metagenomics assessment of three stations, representative of low, moderate, and high mercury concentrations and measured physicochemical factors, revealed the abundances and functions of predicted genes. The most abundant genes regulating the metabolic pathways were categorized as metabolic, environmental information processing, and genetic information processing, genes. At stations with high levels of mercury, the dominant genes were related to energy metabolism, signal transport, and membrane transport. Functional genes with a mercury-resistance function were generally in the mer system (merA, merC, merT, merR), alkylmercury lyase, and metal-transporting ATPase. These results offer insight into the microbial community structure of the sediments in the Yellow River Estuary and the microbial function of mercury resistance under mercury stress.
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- Zhonghua Ren
- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Lu Dong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Lu Dong University, Yantai, 264025, China
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- MabPlex International Co. Ltd (Worldwide), Yantai, 265500, China
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- Clinical Research Center, Affiliated Hospital of Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261042, China
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- Institute of Marine Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Lu Dong University, Yantai, 264025, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Lu Dong University, Yantai, 264025, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Lu Dong University, Yantai, 264025, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Lu Dong University, Yantai, 264025, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Lu Dong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
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Yuan X, Zhang J, Chang F, Wang X, Zhang X, Luan H, Qi G, Guo S. Effects of nitrogen reduction combined with bio-organic fertilizer on soil bacterial community diversity of red raspberry orchard. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0283718. [PMID: 37432967 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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Understanding soil bacterial diversity under nitrogen reduction is necessary for the crucial role in soil nitrogen cycling. However, the effects of combined fertilization on soil chemical properties, microbial community structure, and yield are unknown. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of nitrogen fertilizer reduction with bio-organic fertilizer on soil bacterial community diversity of red raspberry orchard. Six treatments were set in this study: NF-100%, NF-75%, NF-50%, NF-25% and CF, no nitrogen fertilizer and bio-organic fertilizer for CK. The bacterial community structures of soil were analyzed by 16S rRNA gene amplification high-throughput sequencing technology. Nitrogen fertilizer reduction with bio-organic fertilizer increased soil organic matter (SOM), total nitrogen (TN), alkali-hydrolyzable nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP), available potassium (AK), and reduced soil pH. NF-50% and NF-25% treatments increased the yield of red raspberry. Nitrogen reduction combined with bio-organic fertilizer increased the relative abundance of copiotrophic bacteria and decreased the relative abundance of oligotrophic bacteria. The increase in copiotrophic bacteria in the soil of red raspberry orchard could indicate an increase in soil nutrient availability, which have positive implications for soil fertility and production. However, nitrogen fertilizer reduction with bio-organic fertilizer altered the abundance and diversity of soil bacteria, which was reduced compared to CF treatments. The PCoA analysis of the soil bacterial community showed that the community structure of NF-25% treatment was more different from other treatments, indicating that the fertilization method changed the community structure of soil bacteria. The results of a redundancy analysis showed that SOM, pH, AN, TN, and AP were the main factors affecting the microbial community structure. Overall, the reduction of nitrogen fertilizer with bio-organic fertilizer significantly increased the soil nutrient content, reduced the relative abundance and diversity of soil bacteria, increased the relative abundance of beneficial bacteria in the soil, changed the bacterial community structure of soil, increased production and created suitable soil conditions for the red raspberry growth.
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- Xu Yuan
- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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- Institute of Forestry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei Province, China
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Liang S, Li H, Wu H, Yan B, Song A. Microorganisms in coastal wetland sediments: a review on microbial community structure, functional gene, and environmental potential. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1163896. [PMID: 37333635 PMCID: PMC10272453 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1163896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023] Open
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Coastal wetlands (CW) are the junction of the terrestrial and marine ecosystems and have special ecological compositions and functions, which are important for maintaining biogeochemical cycles. Microorganisms inhabiting in sediments play key roles in the material cycle of CW. Due to the variable environment of CW and the fact that most CW are affected by human activities and climate change, CW are severely degraded. In-depth understanding of the community structure, function, and environmental potential of microorganisms in CW sediments is essential for wetland restoration and function enhancement. Therefore, this paper summarizes microbial community structure and its influencing factors, discusses the change patterns of microbial functional genes, reveals the potential environmental functions of microorganisms, and further proposes future prospects about CW studies. These results provide some important references for promoting the application of microorganisms in material cycling and pollution remediation of CW.
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- Shen Liang
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Yangyao J, Chen H, Wang Y, Kan P, Yao J, Zhang D, Sun W, Yao Z. Metagenomic insights into the functional genes across transects in a typical estuarine marsh. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 857:159593. [PMID: 36272486 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 10/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Salt marshes are potentially one of the most efficient carbon (C) sinks worldwide and perform important ecosystem functions, but sea level rise alters marsh sediments properties and thus threatens microbial roles in ecosystem functioning. Yet, the mechanisms of interactions of biochemical processes with microorganisms and their functions are still not fully understood. Here, this study investigated metagenomic taxonomic and functional profiling from the water-land conjugation up to about 300 m, 1000 m, and 2500 m in three parallel transects, respectively, in Hangzhou Bay, China. The results showed that soil physicochemical factors drove metagenomic taxonomic and functional genes in the 2500-m transect significantly different from other sites. The 2500-m transect had a greater abundance of Chloroflexi and Acidobacteria but lower in Proteobacteria. The metagenomic functional genes related to Phosphorus Metabolism (PHO) and Potassium Metabolism (POT) increased in the 2500 m. Additionally, nutrient-cycling functions and the genera of Anaeromyxobacter, Roseiflexus, and Geobacter related to PHO, POT at 2500 m were significantly greater than those of other transects. Carbon cycling functions within Carbohydrates (CHO) also differed significantly across transects. These research results demonstrated that the relative abundance of metagenomic microorganisms and their functional genes were significantly separated across the three transects. The vegetation type, salinity, and soil properties might be among the influencing factors.
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- Jiannan Yangyao
- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, 518107, China; State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; Institute of Ocean Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; Department of Geography and Spatial Information Techniques, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China; Institute of Ocean Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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Chaudhary DR, Kumar M, Kalla V. Sediment microbial community structure, enzymatic activities and functional gene abundance in the coastal hypersaline habitats. Arch Microbiol 2023; 205:56. [PMID: 36607455 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-022-03398-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2022] [Revised: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Salt marsh vegetation, mudflat and salt production are common features in worldwide coastal areas; however, their influence on microbial community composition and structure has been poorly studied and rarely compared. In the present study, microbial community composition (phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiling and 16S rRNA gene sequencing (bacterial and archaeal)) and structure, enzymatic activities and abundance of functional genes in the sediments of salt ponds (crystallizer, condenser and reservoir), mudflat and vegetated mudflat were determined. Enzyme activities (β-glucosidase, urease and alkaline phosphatase) were considerably decreased in saltpan sediments because of elevated salinity while sediment of vegetated mudflat sediments showed the highest enzyme activities. Concentrations of total microbial biomarker PLFAs (total bacterial, Gram-positive, Gram-negative, fungal and actinomycetes) were the highest in vegetated mudflat sediments and the lowest in crystallizer sediments. Nonmetric-multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis of PLFA data revealed that the microbial community of crystallizer, mudflat and vegetated mudflat was significantly different from each other as well as different from condenser and reservoir. The most predominant phyla within the classified bacterial fractions were Proteobacteria followed by Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes and Planctomycetes, while Euryarchaeota and Crenarchaeota phyla dominated the classified archaeal fraction. Cyanobacterial genotypes were the most dominant in the condenser. Mudflat and vegetated mudflat supported a greater abundance of Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria, respectively. The results of the present study suggest that salt ponds had significantly decreased the microbial and enzyme activities in comparison to mudflat and vegetated mudflat sediments due to very high salinity, ionic concentrations and devoid of vegetation. The present study expands our understanding of microbial resource utilization and adaptations of microorganisms in a hypersaline environment.
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- Doongar R Chaudhary
- Division of Plant Omics, CSIR - Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 364002, India. .,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India.
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- Division of Plant Omics, CSIR - Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G. B. Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, 364002, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India
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- Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Shastri Nagar, Sec. A, Jodhpur, 342001, Rajasthan, India
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Niu Y, Hu W, Zhou T, He B, Chen X, Li Y. Diversity of nirS and nirK denitrifying bacteria in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils of halophytes in Ebinur Lake Wetland. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2022.2070030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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- Yanhui Niu
- Comprehensive Microbe Resources Lab, School of life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, P. R. China
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- Comprehensive Microbe Resources Lab, School of life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, P. R. China
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- Comprehensive Microbe Resources Lab, School of life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, P. R. China
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- Comprehensive Microbe Resources Lab, School of life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, P. R. China
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- Comprehensive Microbe Resources Lab, School of life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, P. R. China
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- Comprehensive Microbe Resources Lab, School of life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, P. R. China
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Shi H, Lu L, Ye J, Shi L. Effects of Two Bacillus Velezensis Microbial Inoculants on the Growth and Rhizosphere Soil Environment of Prunus davidiana. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:13639. [PMID: 36362427 PMCID: PMC9657632 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232113639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Revised: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/12/2024] Open
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Microbial inoculants, as harmless, efficient, and environmentally friendly plant growth promoters and soil conditioners, are attracting increasing attention. In this study, the effects of Bacillus velezensis YH-18 and B. velezensis YH-20 on Prunus davidiana growth and rhizosphere soil bacterial community in continuously cropped soil were investigated by inoculation tests. The results showed that in a pot seedling experiment, inoculation with YH-18 and YH-20 resulted in a certain degree of increase in diameter growth, plant height, and leaf area at different time periods of 180 days compared with the control. Moreover, after 30 and 90 days of inoculation, the available nutrients in the soil were effectively improved, which protected the continuously cropped soil from acidification. In addition, high-throughput sequencing showed that inoculation with microbial inoculants effectively slowed the decrease in soil microbial richness and diversity over a one-month period. At the phylum level, Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes were significantly enriched on the 30th day. At the genus level, Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas were significantly enriched at 15 and 30 days, respectively. These bacterial phyla and genera can effectively improve the soil nutrient utilization rate, antagonize plant pathogenic bacteria, and benefit the growth of plants. Furthermore, inoculation with YH-18 and inoculation with YH-20 resulted in similar changes in the rhizosphere microbiome. This study provides a basis for the short-term effect of microbial inoculants on the P. davidiana rhizosphere microbiome and has application value for promoting the cultivation and production of high-quality fruit trees.
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
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Xia X, Zhai Y, Teng Y. Microbial response to biogeochemical profile in a perpendicular riverbank filtration site. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2022; 244:114070. [PMID: 36099687 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.114070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Revised: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Due to extensive water exchanges and abundant active biochemical compositions, active and complex hydrogeochemical processes often exist in riverbank filtration (RBF). The distribution of microbes is considered to be profoundly affected by these processes and is considered to impact the hydrogeochemical processes and the migration and transformation of water pollutants in turn and then impact the water quality. The distribution of microbes and their response to the physiochemical properties along a vertical RBF profile perpendicular to the Songhua River in Northeast China was explored by using 16 S rRNA and redundancy analysis (RDA). The results showed that various microbes were found in the vertical riparian filter (RBF) curve, including Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, and Firmicutes. With increasing depth (vertical) and distance from the river (lateral), the microbial community and diversity in the RBF sediment profile decreased. Nitrospirota, Pseudomonas, Gammaproteobacteria, Ochrobactrum, Acinetobacter and Desulfobacterota of the RBF core taxa were also significantly correlated with the biotransformation behavior of typical groundwater pollutants (ammonia, Fe, Mn and S). The amount of As in the RBF is too low to sustain microbial survival. Some microbes in RBF can also degrade natural organic pollutants. This study not only revealed the spatial distribution of geological microbes under the impact of hydrological processes but also lays a foundation for the further study of the hydrobiogeochemical processes of active biochemical compositions in groundwater and water quality evolution, which is of positive significance to ensure the quality safety of the drinking water supplied by RBFs.
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- Xuelian Xia
- Engineering Research Center of Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation of Ministry of Education of China, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Engineering Research Center of Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation of Ministry of Education of China, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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- Engineering Research Center of Groundwater Pollution Control and Remediation of Ministry of Education of China, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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Shang S, Li L, Zhang Z, Zang Y, Chen J, Wang J, Wu T, Xia J, Tang X. The Effects of Secondary Growth of Spartina alterniflora after Treatment on Sediment Microorganisms in the Yellow River Delta. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10091722. [PMID: 36144325 PMCID: PMC9506343 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10091722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2022] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
As a typical invasive species, Spartina alterniflora is widely recognized as one of the primary threats to biodiversity in various habitats, including wetlands. Although the invasion by S. alterniflora has been managed in multiple ways, it may reappear after treatment. How S. alterniflora affects the soil microbial community in coastal wetlands during its regeneration process has not yet been clarified. Here, rhizosphere soil samples (RSPs) and bulk soil samples (SSPs) were collected in the S. alterniflora community and a high-throughput sequencing method was conducted to analyze the composition and diversity of soil microorganisms. Meanwhile, we also obtain the soil physicochemical properties. In the present study, there was no significant difference in the alpha diversity of both bacterial and fungal communities in the SSP and RSP groups. The PCoA (principal coordinate analysis) also showed that the microbial community structure did not differ significantly between the SSP and RSP groups. The results showed that except for pH, the total sulfur (TS) content, total nitrogen (TN) content, and electrical conductivity (EC) did not differ significantly (p > 0.05) between the SSP and RSP groups. The composition of the bacterial and fungal community in the rhizosphere of S. alterniflora was similar to that found in the surrounding soils. The top two dominant bacterial phyla were Proteobacteria and Desulfobacterota in the present study. Venn diagram results also support this view; most OTUs belong to the common OTUs of the two groups, and the proportion of unique OTUs is relatively small. The LEfSe (LDA effect size) analysis showed that Campylobacterota (at the phylum level) and Sulfurimonas (at the genus level) significantly increased in the RSP group, implying that the increased Sulfurimonas might play an essential role in the invasion by S. alterniflora during the under-water period. Overall, these results suggest that the bacterial and fungal communities were not significantly affected by the S. alterniflora invasion due to the short invasion time.
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- Shuai Shang
- School of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China
- Correspondence: (S.S.); (X.T.)
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China
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- School of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China
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- Department of Natural Resources, First Institute of Oceanography, Qingdao 266100, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China
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- School of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China
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- School of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China
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- School of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Eco-Environmental Science for Yellow River Delta, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China
- Correspondence: (S.S.); (X.T.)
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Li L, Jiang X, Zhou Q, Chen J, Zang Y, Zhang Z, Gao C, Tang X, Shang S. Responses of Soil Microbiota to Different Control Methods of the Spartina alterniflora in the Yellow River Delta. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10061122. [PMID: 35744640 PMCID: PMC9230759 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10061122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Revised: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Spartina alterniflora invasion has negative effects on the structure and functioning of coastal wetland ecosystems. Therefore, many methods for controlling S. alterniflora invasion have been developed. S. alterniflora control methods can affect plant community, which results in changes in microbial communities and subsequent changes in soil ecological processes. However, the effects of controlling S. alterniflora on soil microbial communities remain poorly understood. We aimed to examine the responses of bacterial and fungal communities to invasion control methods (cutting plus tilling treatment: CT; mechanical rolling treatment: MR). Soil bacterial and fungal community diversity and composition structure were assessed using high-throughput sequencing technology. The findings of the study showed that bacterial diversity and richness in the CT treatment reduced substantially, but fungal diversity and richness did not show any remarkable change. Bacterial and fungal diversity and richness in the MR treatment were not affected considerably. In addition, the two control methods significantly changed the soil microbial community structure. The relative abundance of bacteria negatively associated with nutrient cycling increased considerably in the CT treatment. The considerable increases in the relative abundance of certain bacterial taxa in the MR treatment may promote soil nutrient cycling. Compared with mechanical rolling, soil bacterial community diversity and structure were more sensitive to cutting plus tilling.
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- Liangyu Li
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China; (L.L.); (J.C.); (Y.Z.)
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource and Environment Research Institute, Yantai 250299, China; (X.J.); (Q.Z.); (C.G.)
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource and Environment Research Institute, Yantai 250299, China; (X.J.); (Q.Z.); (C.G.)
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China; (L.L.); (J.C.); (Y.Z.)
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China; (L.L.); (J.C.); (Y.Z.)
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256601, China;
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration, Shandong Marine Resource and Environment Research Institute, Yantai 250299, China; (X.J.); (Q.Z.); (C.G.)
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China; (L.L.); (J.C.); (Y.Z.)
- Correspondence: (X.T.); (S.S.)
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- College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266005, China; (L.L.); (J.C.); (Y.Z.)
- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256601, China;
- Correspondence: (X.T.); (S.S.)
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Responses of Fungal Community Structure and Functional Composition to Short-Term Fertilization and Dry Season Irrigation in Eucalyptus urophylla × Eucalyptus grandis Plantation Soils. FORESTS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/f13060854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Plantation forests productivity is severely limited by the seasonal drought and fertilization practices in South China. Soil nutrient and water availability influence soil fungal community, functional group diversity and the variation of plant productivity; however, the effects of irrigation and fertilization on fungal responses have rarely been studied. Here, we investigate the responses of fungal community structure and functional groups in Eucalyptus plantation soils to short-term fertilization (F), dry-season irrigation (W), short-term fertilization combined with dry-season irrigation (FW), and control (CK) treatments for ten months. A higher proportion of Basidiomycota was observed in the irrigation and/or fertilization treatments; conversely, lower proportions of Ascomycota and Mucoromycotina were observed in the only irrigation and fertilization treatments. Higher soil carbon contents and symbiotroph fungi (mainly Ectomycorrhizas) proportion were detected in the FW treatment, while low proportions of saprophytic and pathogenic fungi were observed in the FW treatment when compared with those in other treatments. These results may indicate that Eucalyptus tree growth under irrigation and fertilization condition was better than under fertilization only, irrigation only, or neither management. The results highlight that short-term fertilization and dry-season irrigation can shift fungal community structure and functional groups by regulating available soil moisture and nutrients. They also provide a theoretical basis for the development of more appropriate management approaches in the early stages of forest plantation.
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Shang S, Hu S, Liu X, Zang Y, Chen J, Gao N, Li L, Wang J, Liu L, Xu J, Zhang Y, Wu T, Tang X. Effects of
Spartina alterniflora
invasion on the community structure and diversity of wetland soil bacteria in the Yellow River Delta. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8905. [PMID: 35571753 PMCID: PMC9077829 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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- Shuai Shang
- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Binzhou University Binzhou Shandong China
- College of Marine Life Sciences Ocean University of China Qingdao Shandong China
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- Shandong Provincial Key laboratory of Marine Ecological Restoration Shandong Marine Resource and Environment Research Institute Yantai China
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Binzhou University Binzhou Shandong China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences Ocean University of China Qingdao Shandong China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences Ocean University of China Qingdao Shandong China
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- National Marine Environment Monitoring Center Dalian China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences Ocean University of China Qingdao Shandong China
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Binzhou University Binzhou Shandong China
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Binzhou University Binzhou Shandong China
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Binzhou University Binzhou Shandong China
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Binzhou University Binzhou Shandong China
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering Binzhou University Binzhou Shandong China
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- College of Marine Life Sciences Ocean University of China Qingdao Shandong China
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He C, Zheng L, Ding J, Gao W, Li Q, Han B, Li J. Variation in Bacterial Community Structures and Functions as Indicators of Response to the Restoration of Suaeda salsa: A Case Study of the Restoration in the Beidaihe Coastal Wetland. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:783155. [PMID: 35547109 PMCID: PMC9082946 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.783155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Microbes play an essential role in the restoration of degraded coastal wetlands. However, few studies have focused on the role of key bacteria in the restoration process. Here, Suaeda salsa was planted to recover the biodiversity in the degraded Beidaihe coastal wetland. We monitored omics and soil environmental factors to understand the complex relationship between the bacterial community and wetland health during the restoration period. After planting S. salsa in the degraded area, the soil quality was improved in the later stage of restoration (LPR). Bacterial α-diversity increased with restoration and was positively correlated with TOC. Proteobacteria is the dominant bacterial phylum during the restoration period, and Bacteroidetes, Planctomycetes, Gemmatimonadetes, and Acidobacteria were sensitive to the planting restoration. Random forest analysis picked 30 key OTUs, showing the key bacterial variation of successful restoration. The result indicated that the sum of the relative abundances of key bacterial OTUs was more than 2% in the health wetland. The β-diversity showed that the growth of S. salsa reshaped the soil bacterial community structure and function in the LPR, which recovered to the level in the control area. Putative biogeochemical functions showed that symbionts and aromatic compound degradation were dominant bacterial functions in the growth period of S. salsa. Our study proposed a new indicator to assess wetland health and the planting restoration of S. salsa increased bacteria groups with the ability of symbionts and aromatic compound degradation in the Beidaihe coastal wetland. This study expanded our knowledge of coastal wetland restoration and its ecological contributions.
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- Changfei He
- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Coastal Environmental Pollution Control, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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Li M, Zhang K, Yan Z, Liu L, Kang E, Kang X. Soil Water Content Shapes Microbial Community Along Gradients of Wetland Degradation on the Tibetan Plateau. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:824267. [PMID: 35185848 PMCID: PMC8847787 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.824267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Soil microbes are important components in element cycling and nutrient supply for the development of alpine ecosystems. However, the development of microbial community compositions and networks in the context of alpine wetland degradation is unclear. We applied high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to track changes in microbial communities along degradation gradients from typical alpine wetland (W), to wet meadow (WM), to typical meadow (M), to grassland (G), and to desert (D) in the Zoige alpine wetland region on the Tibetan Plateau. Soil water content (SWC) decreased as wetland degradation progressed (79.4 and 9.3% in W and D soils, respectively). Total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP) increased in the soils of WM, and then decreased with alpine wetlands degradation from WM to the soils of M, G, and D, respectively. Wetland degradation did not affect microbial community richness and diversity from W soils to WM, M, and G soils, but did affect richness and diversity in D soils. Microbial community structure was strongly affected by wetland degradation, mainly due to changes in SWC, TOC, TN, and TP. SWC was the primary soil physicochemical property influencing microbial community compositions and networks. In wetland degradation areas, Actinobacteriota, Acidobacteriota, Cholorflexi, and Proteovacteria closely interacted in the microbial network. Compared to soils of W, WM, and M, Actinobacteriota played an important role in the microbial co-occurrence network of the G and D soils. This research contributes to our understanding of how microbial community composition and networks change with varied soil properties during degradation of different alpine wetlands.
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- Meng Li
- Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Wetland Services and Restoration, Beijing, China.,Sichuan Zoige Wetland Ecosystem Research Station, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, China
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- Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Wetland Services and Restoration, Beijing, China.,Sichuan Zoige Wetland Ecosystem Research Station, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, China
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- Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Wetland Services and Restoration, Beijing, China.,Sichuan Zoige Wetland Ecosystem Research Station, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, China
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- National Disaster Reduction Center of China, Ministry of Emergency Management, Beijing, China.,Satellite Application Center for Disaster Reduction, Ministry of Emergency Management, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Wetland Services and Restoration, Beijing, China.,Sichuan Zoige Wetland Ecosystem Research Station, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, China
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- Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Wetland Services and Restoration, Beijing, China.,Sichuan Zoige Wetland Ecosystem Research Station, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, China
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Responses of Bacterial Taxonomical Diversity Indicators to Pollutant Loadings in Experimental Wetland Microcosms. WATER 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/w14020251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Urbanization results in higher stormwater loadings of pollutants such as metals and nutrients into surface waters. This directly impacts organisms in aquatic ecosystems, including microbes. Sediment microbes are known for pollution reduction in the face of contamination, making bacterial communities an important area for bioindicator research. This study explores the pattern of bacterial responses to metal and nutrient pollution loading and seeks to evaluate whether bacterial indicators can be effective as a biomonitoring risk assessment tool for wetland ecosystems. Microcosms were built containing sediments collected from wetlands in the urbanizing Pike River watershed in southeastern Wisconsin, USA, with metals and nutrients added at 7 day intervals. Bacterial DNA was extracted from the microcosm sediments, and taxonomical profiles of bacterial communities were identified up to the genera level by sequencing 16S bacterial rRNA gene (V3–V4 region). Reduction of metals (example: 90% for Pb) and nutrients (example: 98% for NO3−) added in water were observed. The study found correlations between diversity indices of genera with metal and nutrient pollution as well as identified specific genera (including Fusibacter, Aeromonas, Arthrobacter, Bacillus, Bdellovibrio, and Chlorobium) as predictive bioindicators for ecological risk assessment for metal pollution.
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You X, Yin S, Suo F, Xu Z, Chu D, Kong Q, Zhang C, Li Y, Liu L. Biochar and fertilizer improved the growth and quality of the ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.) shoots in a coastal soil of Yellow River Delta, China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 775:144893. [PMID: 33618299 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2020] [Revised: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Coastal soil is an important land reserve that may be used to alleviate the shortage of cultivated land; however, this soil is stressed by saline conditions and nutrient deficiency. Biochar offers the potential to reclaim coastal soil, but the response of plant growth to biochar addition in salt-affected soil is species-dependent. In this study, the response of ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.), an economically valuable halophyte that grows in the coastal soil of the Yellow River Delta, to wood chip biochar (WBC) either alone or in combination with chemical fertilizer was investigated using a 90-day pot experiment. The WBC enhanced the growth of ice plants in the coastal soil, but combining it with chemical fertilizer did not increase its effect. The nutritional quality of the plants was improved by the addition of WBC, regardless of whether chemical fertilizer was applied; moreover, WBC amendment enhanced photosynthesis and reduced the oxidative stress of the plants. The ameliorated soil properties (e.g., soil organic matter and water holding capacity) and increased contents of available macronutrients (e.g., P and K) and micronutrients (e.g., Mg, Mn, B and Zn) resulting from soil amendment with WBC may have contributed to the enhanced growth and quality of the ice plants. Additionally, in soil modified with WBC, an increased abundance of beneficial taxa (e.g., Erythrobacter, Sphingomonas and Lysobacter) and a shift in the microbial community may also have helped to improve the growth and quality of the ice plants. The results of our study provide useful information for developing a biochar-based technology to use in combination with valuable halophytes to reclaim degraded coastal soil and enhance food security.
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- Xiangwei You
- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China.
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- Marine Agriculture Research Center, Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China.
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- Qingdao Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Qingdao 266100, China
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Chi Z, Zhu Y, Li H, Wu H, Yan B. Unraveling bacterial community structure and function and their links with natural salinity gradient in the Yellow River Delta. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 773:145673. [PMID: 33940756 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Salinization can change the soil environment and affect microbial processes. In this study, soil samples were collected from Zone A (Phragmites australis wetlands), Zone B (P. australis and Suaeda salsa wetlands), and Zone C (Spartina alterniflora wetlands) in the Yellow River Delta. The microbial community and functional potential along the natural salinity gradient were investigated. Total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, and soil organic matter presented a downward trend, and salinity first increased and then decreased from Zone A to Zone C. Nitrospira and norank_f_Nitrosomonadaceae were widely distributed throughout the zones. Denitrifying bacteria Alcanivorax, Marinobacterter, and Marinobacterium were abundant in Zone B and preferred high salinity levels. However, denitrifying bacteria Azoarcus, Flavobacterium, and Pseudomonas were mainly distributed in low-salinity Zones A and C, suggesting their high sensitivity to salinity. Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonia (DNRA) bacteria Aeromonas and Geobacter dominated Zone C, whereas Caldithrix performed DNRA in Zone B. Interestingly, DNRA with organic matter as the electron donor (C-DNRA) occurred in Zone A; DNRA coupled with sulfide oxidation (S-DNRA) was dominant in Zone B; and C-DNRA and DNRA with divalent iron as electron donor and S-DNRA occurred simultaneously in Zone C. Salinity was the key factor distinguishing low and high salinity zones, and total nitrogen and total phosphorus had important effects at the phylum and genus levels. The abundance of genes encoding cell growth and death was relatively stable, indicating that the microbial community had good environmental adaptability. The genes related to the biodegradation of xenobiotics and the metabolism of terpenoids and polyketides were abundant in Zone B, revealing high metabolic potential for exogenous refractory substances. The microorganisms under low-salinity Zones A and C were more sensitive to environmental changes than those under Zone B. These results suggest that salinity plays important roles in microbial processes and shapes specific functional zones in coastal wetlands.
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- Zifang Chi
- Key Lab of Groundwater Resources and Environment, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, PR China
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- Key Lab of Groundwater Resources and Environment, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, PR China
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Diversity of soil nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the rhizosphere and non-rhizophere soils of Ebinur Lake Wetland. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:3919-3932. [PMID: 34021386 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-021-02363-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Ebinur Lake Wetland is an understudied desert wetland ecosystem, particularly regarding nitrogen cycling. This study aimed to ascertain the diversity and richness of nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities in the Ebinur Lake Wetland. The diversity of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria community of nifH genes from the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils of four plants in different seasons were examined using Illumina HiSeq PE250 high-throughput sequencing technology. The correlation between soil environmental factors and diversity and richness of nitrogen-fixing bacteria was studied using the redundancy analysis (RDA). The results showed that the diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the rhizosphere soil of the constructive plants was higher than that in the non-rhizosphere soil; also, the diversity in July was higher than that in October and April. Geobacter, Pseudomonas and Bradyrhizobium were the dominant common bacteria in different samples of Ebinur Lake Wetland. The RDA showed that the total nitrogen, available potassium and available phosphoruswere significantly correlated with the diversity and richness of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The diversity and community structure of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in soil samples also changed over time. The community structures of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils of the four plants were not the same during the same period. The correlation between soil environmental factors and the community structure and abundance of nitrogen-fixing bacteria can provide data basis and theoretical support for the degradation and restoration of Ebinur Lake Wetland.
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Wang J, Wang L, Hu W, Pan Z, Zhang P, Wang C, Wang J, Wu S, Li YZ. Assembly processes and source tracking of planktonic and benthic bacterial communities in the Yellow River estuary. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:2578-2591. [PMID: 33754415 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 03/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Estuaries connect rivers with the ocean and are considered transition regions due to the continuous inputs from rivers. Microbiota from different sources converge and undergo succession in these transition regions, but their assembly mechanisms along environmental gradients remain unclear. Here, we found that salinity had a stronger effect on planktonic than on benthic microbial communities, and the dominant planktonic bacteria changed more distinctly than the dominant benthic bacteria with changes in salinity. The planktonic bacteria in the brackish water came mainly from seawater, which was confirmed in the laboratory, whereas the benthic bacteria were weakly affected by salinity, which appeared to be a mixture of the bacteria from riverine and oceanic sediments. Benthic bacterial community assembly in the sediments was mainly controlled by homogeneous selection and almost unaffected by changes in salinity, the dominant assemblage processes for planktonic bacteria changed dramatically along the salinity gradient, from homogeneous selection in freshwater to drift in seawater. Our results highlight that salinity is the key driver of estuarine microbial succession and that salinity is more important in shaping planktonic than benthic bacterial communities in the Yellow River estuary.
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- Jianing Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- National Nature Reserve Administration of Yellow River Delta, Dongying, 257091, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Institute of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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Bonetti G, Trevathan-Tackett SM, Carnell PE, Macreadie PI. The potential of viruses to influence the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions in an inland wetland. WATER RESEARCH 2021; 193:116875. [PMID: 33550166 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.116875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Revised: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Wetlands are among the earth's most efficient ecosystems for carbon sequestration, but can also emit potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) depending on how they are managed. Global management strategies have sought to maximize carbon drawdown by wetlands by manipulating wetland hydrology to inhibit bacterially-mediated emissions. However, it has recently been hypothesized within wetlands that viruses have the potential to dictate the magnitude and direction of GHG emissions by attacking prokaryotes involved in the carbon cycle. Here we tested this hypothesis in a whole-ecosystem manipulation by hydrologically-restoring a degraded wetland ('rewetting') and investigated the changes in GHG emissions, prokaryotes, viruses, and virus-host interactions. We found that hydrological restoration significantly increased prokaryotic diversity, methanogenic Methanomicrobia, as well as putative iron/sulfate-cyclers (Geobacteraceae), nitrogen-cyclers (Nitrosomonadaceae), and fermentative bacteria (Koribacteraceae). These results provide insights into successional microbial community shifts during rehabilitation. Additionally, in response to watering, viral-induced prokaryotic mortality declined by 77%, resulting in limited carbon released by viral shunt that was significantly correlated with the 2.8-fold reduction in wetland carbon emissions. Our findings highlight, for the first time, the potential implications of viral infections in soil prokaryotes on wetland greenhouse gas dynamics and confirm the importance of wetland rehabilitation as a tool to offset carbon emissions.
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- Giuditta Bonetti
- Deakin University, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Burwood Campus, Victoria 3125, Australia..
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- Deakin University, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Burwood Campus, Victoria 3125, Australia..
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Queenscliff Campus, Queenscliff, VIC 3225, Australia.
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- Deakin University, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Burwood Campus, Victoria 3125, Australia..
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Shen R, Lan Z, Rinklebe J, Nie M, Hu Q, Yan Z, Fang C, Jin B, Chen J. Flooding variations affect soil bacterial communities at the spatial and inter-annual scales. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 759:143471. [PMID: 33213905 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Hydrological variations have substantial effects on the diversity and composition of soil bacterial communities in wetlands. At the spatial scale, the responses of soil bacterial diversity and composition to hydrological variations in wetlands have been extensively investigated. However, at the temporal scale, especially at the inter-annual scale, the corresponding bacterial responses are rarely reported. Therefore, we explored the effects of flooding variations on the diversity and composition of soil bacterial communities at a lakeshore wetland in two hydrological contrasting years. Three flooding variables, i.e. flooding duration (FD), total duration of the growing season (TGD), and exposure duration of the growing season (EGD), were used to characterize flooding regime. Soil bacterial communities were determined using 16S rRNA gene sequencing method. We found a very high soil bacterial diversity at the lakeshore wetland. The Shannon's indexes of soil bacterial communities varied from 5.61 to 7.11 in two years. Soil bacterial α-diversity followed a unimodal curve along the elevation gradient, and was significantly lower in the flooding year than in the drought year. Principal coordinate analysis demonstrated that the compositions of soil bacterial communities were separated in order of elevation and year along the first and second axes, respectively. The apparent habitat preferences of soil bacterial families were closely connected with their respiratory traits, and this trend was stronger at the inter-annual scale than at the spatial scale. Soil bacterial compositions were predominantly determined by the direct (by changing respiratory traits) and indirect (by changing soil pH) effects of TGD at the spatial scale, while they were simultaneously regulated by the direct effects of three flooding variables at the inter-annual scale. Our results enhance the understanding of soil microbial communities in wetlands and have large implications for developing general theories to predicting soil microbial functions.
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- Ruichang Shen
- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecosystem Change and Biodiversity, Center for Watershed Ecosystem, Institute of Life Science and School of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Jiangxi Poyang Lake Wetland Conservation and Restoration National Permanent Scientific Research Base, National Ecosystem Research Station of Jiangxi Poyang Lake Wetland, Nanchang 330031, China; Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Environment and Resource Utilization, Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; Jiangxi Institute of Ecological Civilization, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China.
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecosystem Change and Biodiversity, Center for Watershed Ecosystem, Institute of Life Science and School of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Jiangxi Poyang Lake Wetland Conservation and Restoration National Permanent Scientific Research Base, National Ecosystem Research Station of Jiangxi Poyang Lake Wetland, Nanchang 330031, China; Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Environment and Resource Utilization, Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; Jiangxi Institute of Ecological Civilization, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Soil- and Groundwater-Management, University of Wuppertal, Pauluskirchstraße 7, 42285 Wuppertal, Germany; Department of Environment, Energy, and Geoinformatics, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea
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- Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
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- Institute of Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecosystem Change and Biodiversity, Center for Watershed Ecosystem, Institute of Life Science and School of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; Jiangxi Poyang Lake Wetland Conservation and Restoration National Permanent Scientific Research Base, National Ecosystem Research Station of Jiangxi Poyang Lake Wetland, Nanchang 330031, China; Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Environment and Resource Utilization, Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China; Jiangxi Institute of Ecological Civilization, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China
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- Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Lu G, Xie B, Cagle GA, Wang X, Han G, Wang X, Hou A, Guan B. Effects of simulated nitrogen deposition on soil microbial community diversity in coastal wetland of the Yellow River Delta. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 757:143825. [PMID: 33280872 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 11/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Due to the enhancement of human activities on the global scale, the total amount of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition and the rate keep increasing, which seriously affect the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems. In order to study the effects of N deposition on the soil structure and function of coastal saline wetlands, we established a long-term nitrogen deposition simulation platform in 2012 in the Yellow River delta (YRD). Herein, we analyzed the composition and diversity of the soil microbial community under different N deposition treatments (LNN, MNN and HNN, which stand for 50 kg N ha-1 yr-1, 100 kg N ha-1 yr-1, and 200 kg N ha-1 yr-1) and in a water-only control (CK). The results showed that with the increasing level of N deposition, α-diversity (Shannon and Simpson indices) decreased significantly, and the composition of the microbial community changed. At the phylum level, compared with CK, the relative abundance of Chloroflexi increased significantly under the treatment of HNN (P = 0.002), but the relative abundance of Chlorobi (P = 0.013) and Verrucomicrobia (P = 0.035) decreased significantly. At the genus level, compared with CK, the relative abundance of Bacillus (P = 0.01) and Halomonas (P = 0.042) increased significantly with HNN treatment. Bacillus and Nitrococcus showed a significant correlation with soil NH4+-N. The results suggest that the response of microorganisms to N deposition treatments varied by the concentration, and the deposition of a high concentration would increase the nutrients in the soil, but reduce the diversity of soil microorganisms, causing a negative impact on the coastal wetland ecosystem of the YRD.
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- Guanru Lu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Process and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Process and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- The Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Process and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Process and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Process and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Shandong Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, YICCAS, Yantai 264003, China.
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Guo C, Zhang X, Luan S, Zhou H, Liu L, Qu Y. Diversity and structure of soil bacterial community in intertidal zone of Daliao River estuary, Northeast China. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2021; 163:111965. [PMID: 33450443 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Soil samples from the intertidal zone of Daliao River, Northeast China, were collected in three seasons (autumn, L1; winter, L2; and spring, L3) to evaluate the diversity and structure of bacterial community using high-throughput sequencing. Soil physicochemical characteristics varied greatly with seasons, and the potential nitrification rates were detected in the range of 1.04-2.71 μg NO3--N·g-1 dry soil·h-1 with the highest rate in spring (L3). Soil bacterial communities also differed seasonally, and nitrogen nutrients were the important variables affecting the bacterial communities as demonstrated by distance-based redundancy analysis and Mantel tests. Proteobacteria was the predominant phylum in soils showing a descending trend from L1 to L3. Woeseia and Ignatzschineria, both affiliating with Gammaproteobacteria, were the two most dominant genera, but they exerted different seasonal variations. The predicted functional profiles revealed 6 major nitrogen cycling processes, and the functional genes in relation to denitrification process were dominant in intertidal soils.
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- Chaochen Guo
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China; Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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McGee KM, Porter TM, Wright M, Hajibabaei M. Drivers of tropical soil invertebrate community composition and richness across tropical secondary forests using DNA metasystematics. Sci Rep 2020; 10:18429. [PMID: 33116157 PMCID: PMC7595130 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75452-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Tropical forests are fundamental ecosystems, essential for providing terrestrial primary productivity, global nutrient cycling, and biodiversity. Despite their importance, tropical forests are currently threatened by deforestation and associated activities. Moreover, tropical regions are now mostly represented by secondary forest regrowth, with half of the remaining tropical forests as secondary forest. Soil invertebrates are an important component to the functioning and biodiversity of these soil ecosystems. However, it remains unclear how these past land-use activities and subsequent secondary forest developments have altered the soil invertebrate communities and any potential ecological consequences associated with this. DNA metabarcoding offers an effective approach to rapidly monitor soil invertebrate communities under different land-use practices and within secondary forests. In this study, we used DNA metabarcoding to detect community-based patterns of soil invertebrate composition across a primary forest, a 23-year-old secondary forest, and a 33-year-old secondary forest and the associated soil environmental drivers of the soil invertebrate community structure in the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge of Costa Rica (MNWR). We also used a species contribution analysis (SIMPER) to determine which soil invertebrate groups may be an indication of these soils reaching a pre-disturbed state such as a primary forest. We found that the soil invertebrate community composition at class, order, family, and ESV level were mostly significantly different across that habitats. We also found that the primary forest had a greater richness of soil invertebrates compared to the 23-year-old and 33-year-old secondary forest. Moreover, a redundancy analysis indicated that soil moisture influenced soil invertebrate community structure and explained up to 22% of the total variation observed in the community composition across the habitats; whereas soil invertebrate richness was structured by soil microbial biomass carbon (C) (Cmic) and explained up to 52% of the invertebrate richness across the primary and secondary forests. Lastly, the SIMPER analysis revealed that Naididae, Entomobryidae, and Elateridae could be important indicators of soil and forest recuperation in the MNWR. This study adds to the increasing evidence that soil invertebrates are intimately linked with the soil microbial biomass carbon (Cmic) and that even after 33 years of natural regrowth of a forest, these land use activities can still have persisting effects on the overall composition and richness of the soil invertebrate communities.
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- Katie M McGee
- Department of Integrative Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada.
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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Feng X, Xiao K, Li H. Tidal groundwater flow and its potential effect on the hydrochemical characteristics in a mud-sand-layered aquifer in Daya Bay, China. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:24438-24451. [PMID: 32306262 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-08809-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Tidal groundwater dynamics and hydrochemistry can play important roles in influencing nearshore ecological and environmental systems. However, the potential relationship between the groundwater dynamics and the hydrochemical characteristics was not well understood. In this study, we conducted an integrated investigation by field work and numerical simulations to explore the potential effect of tidal groundwater dynamics on hydrochemistry in an intertidal mudflat in Daya Bay, China. The time series of groundwater level were monitored over a spring-neap tidal cycle along a 200-m-long intertidal transect, which had a mud-sand-layered aquifer. The shallow groundwater samples were collected to analyze the spatial distributions of hydrochemical characteristics, including major ions (Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, SO42-, HCO3-, and Cl-), heavy metals (As and Cu), and short-lived radium isotopes (223Ra and 224Ra). The groundwater transport process along the transect was simulated for understanding the groundwater flow field and quantifying the groundwater-seawater exchange rates across the water-sediment interface. The integrated results indicated that the seawater-groundwater interactions play a great influence on the groundwater hydrochemistry. For example, the major ions showed various degrees of enrichment and loss, such as losses of SO42- due to microbial sulfate reduction, and enrichment of HCO3-, Ca2+, and Mg2+ under the water-rock interactions. Heavy metals were transported by groundwater and accumulated in the intertidal sediments. In addition, there was a negative correlation between short-lived radium isotope activities and oxidation-reduction potential. However, the relationship between seawater-groundwater exchange rates and the short-lived radium isotope activities was not significant.
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- Xiaobo Feng
- School of Water Resources and Environment Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China.
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China.
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- School of Water Resources and Environment Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China
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Zou Y, Yan J, Hou S, Yi Y, Cui B. Intensive land uses modify assembly process and potential metabolic function of edaphic bacterial communities in the Yellow River Delta, China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 720:137713. [PMID: 32325607 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Revised: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Coastal reclamation is a global threat to natural ecosystems, disturbing biological community structure, diversity and ecological function through habitat conversion. We have limited insights into the changes brought about by coastal reclamation for different land-use types. We used the Yellow River Delta (YRD) as a model because it is a region with intensive land reclamation, and we investigated the structural and functional variations of bacterial communities and their relations to edaphic properties under different land-use types. Our results showed that the high soil organic carbon (SOC), nitrate concentrations and salinity were found in oil field, aquaculture pond and salt pan, respectively, and low values in natural wetland. Land use was found to have significant influence on bacterial community diversity. To investigate the phylogenetic conservation of specific traits, we analyzed the relationship between soil bacterial assembly processes and edaphic properties. Bacterial traits phylogenetically conserved, and differs in depth. Our findings suggest that SOC served as a deep trait due to it negative correlation with deeper branches of phylogenetic clustering, while nitrate functioned as a shallow trait due to its positive correlation with phylogenetic clustering at finer branches. Soil salinity acted as a complex trait effected on both finer and deeper branches. Further potential functional gene co-occurrence network analysis revealed that land reclamation induced shifts of metabolic function by altering the functional gene connectivity. We found that the photosynthesis pathway was enriched in hub modules related to oil field (OF), while methane metabolism was enriched in hub modules linked to sea cucumber pond (CP1). In addition, two-component systems (TCS) were enriched with nitrate, ammonia, SOC and salinity-related modules. Therefore, our study highlights the importance of integrating multi-function and multi-process identification and prediction of coastal diverse reclamation impacts on coastal ecosystems.
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- Yuxuan Zou
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China.
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Shifts in the Bacterial Population and Ecosystem Functions in Response to Vegetation in the Yellow River Delta Wetlands. mSystems 2020; 5:5/3/e00412-20. [PMID: 32518198 PMCID: PMC7289592 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00412-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vegetation represents probably the most crucial step for the ecosystem functions of wetlands, but it is unclear how microbial populations and functions shift along with vegetation. In this study, we found that the richness and diversity of soil bacteria increased with vegetation levels and that the community composition was distinctly shifted from bare to vegetative places. The bare land displayed an extremely high abundance of Cyanobacteria as a monospecies genus, while a Gemmatimonadetes genus was predominant as multiple species in all the vegetative wetlands, suggesting their important ecosystem functions and potential mechanisms. Expression of the genes related to photosynthesis was enriched exclusively in bare land. Genes involved in biological organic carbon metabolism and the cycling of main elements (C, N, S, and P) were highly expressed in vegetative wetlands and were mostly included in the metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) of Gemmatimonadetes Some compounds identified from soil metabolomic results also corresponded to pathways involving these key active genes. Cyanobacteria is thus responsible for the carbon sink in early infertile wetlands, and Gemmatimonadetes plays a crucial role in ecosystem functions in vegetative wetlands. Our results highlight that the soil microbial populations execute ecosystem functions for wetlands and that vegetation is the determinant for the population and functional shifts in the coastal estuarine wetland of the Yellow River Delta.IMPORTANCE Vegetation probably represents the most crucial step for the ecosystem functions of wetlands, but it is unclear how microbial populations and functions shift in pace with the colonization and succession of vegetation. In this study, we found that a Cyanobacteria monospecies genus and a Gemmatimonadetes multispecies genus are fastidiously predominant in the bare and vegetative wetlands of the Yellow River Delta, respectively. Consistently, photosynthesis genes were enriched exclusively in bare land, while genes involved in biological organic carbon metabolism and the cycling of main elements were highly expressed in vegetative wetlands, were mostly included in the MAG of Gemmatimonadetes, and were consistent with soil metabolomic results. Our results provide insight into the adaptive succession of predominant bacterial species and their ecosystem functions in response to the presence of vegetation.
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Li Y, Jing H, Kao SJ, Zhang W, Liu H. Metabolic response of prokaryotic microbes to sporadic hypoxia in a eutrophic subtropical estuary. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2020; 154:111064. [PMID: 32319898 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 03/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Coastal eutrophication and consequent oxygen depletion (hypoxia) occurs worldwide due to increased human activity. The paucity of genomic information of microbes in hypoxia prone coastal waters have hindered our understanding of microorganism related causation and adaption to the environment. Here, using metagenomic approach, we investigated microbial metabolic capability in heavily polluted Pearl River estuary. Our results highlighted the possible roles of microbial metabolic activity in the formation of bottom water hypoxia by revealing enriched organic degradation related microbial genes in the bottom layer beneath surface phytoplankton bloom. Microbial nitrate reduction in hypoxia layer was low, possibly due to the low pH and fluctuating oxygen level. On contrary, high abundance of sulfate-reducing, and antibiotic and metal resistance related genes were detected in bottom and surface layers, respectively, indicating microbial adaptation to oxygen depletion and pollution. Our study provides gene level information on the interactive relations between microbial functions and environmental stress.
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- Yingdong Li
- Department of Ocean Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Experimental Study under Deep-sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Ocean Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, China
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- Department of Ocean Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, China; Hong Kong Branch of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
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Wu Y, Rong X, Zhang C, Zhang R, He T, Yu Y, Zhao Z, Yang J, Han R. Response of the Intertidal Microbial Community Structure and Metabolic Profiles to Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Exposure. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:ijerph17072253. [PMID: 32230816 PMCID: PMC7177635 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17072253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2020] [Revised: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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The toxicity of nanomaterials to microorganisms is related to their dose and environmental factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the shifts in the microbial community structure and metabolic profiles and to evaluate the environmental factors in a laboratory scale intertidal wetland system exposed to zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs). Microbial assemblages were determined using 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing. Community-level physiological profiles were determined using Biolog-ECO technology. Results showed Proteobacteria was the predominant (42.6%–55.8%) phylum across all the sediments, followed by Bacteroidetes (18.9%–29.0%). The genera Azoarcus, Maribacter, and Thauera were most frequently detected. At the studied concentrations (40 mg·L−1, 80 mg·L−1, 120 mg·L−1), ZnO NPs had obvious impacts on the activity of Proteobacteria. Adverse effects were particularly evident in sulfur and nitrogen cycling bacteria such as Sulfitobacter, unidentified_Nitrospiraceae, Thauera, and Azoarcus. The alpha diversity index of microbial community did not reflect stronger biological toxicity in the groups with high NP concentrations (80 mg·L−1, 120 mg·L−1) than the group with low NP concentration (40 mg·L−1). The average well color development (AWCD) values of periodically submersed groups were higher than those of long-term submersed groups. The group with NP concentration (40 mg·L−1) had the lowest AWCD value; those of the groups with high NP concentrations (80 mg·L−1, 120 mg·L−1) were slightly lower than that of the control group. The beta diversity showed that tidal activity shaped the similar microbial community among the periodically submerged groups, as well as the long-term submerged groups. The groups with high DO concentrations had higher diversity of the microbial community, better metabolic ability, and stronger resistance to ZnO NPs than the groups with a low DO concentration.
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- Yinghai Wu
- Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; (Y.W.); (X.R.); (C.Z.)
- South China Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, China; (T.H.); (Y.Y.); (Z.Z.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
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- Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; (Y.W.); (X.R.); (C.Z.)
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- Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; (Y.W.); (X.R.); (C.Z.)
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
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- South China Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, China; (T.H.); (Y.Y.); (Z.Z.)
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- South China Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, China; (T.H.); (Y.Y.); (Z.Z.)
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- South China Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, China; (T.H.); (Y.Y.); (Z.Z.)
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- South China Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou 510655, China; (T.H.); (Y.Y.); (Z.Z.)
- Correspondence: (J.Y.); (R.H.); Tel.: +86-20-29119533 (J.Y.); +86-411-84763257 (R.H.)
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- Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; (Y.W.); (X.R.); (C.Z.)
- Key Laboratory of Environment Controlled Aquaculture, Ministry of Education, Dalian 116023, China
- Correspondence: (J.Y.); (R.H.); Tel.: +86-20-29119533 (J.Y.); +86-411-84763257 (R.H.)
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Li H, Chi Z, Li J, Wu H, Yan B. Bacterial community structure and function in soils from tidal freshwater wetlands in a Chinese delta: Potential impacts of salinity and nutrient. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 696:134029. [PMID: 31470319 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2019] [Revised: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Microorganisms in tidal freshwater wetlands affect biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, but the structures and functions of the wetland communities change due to natural and anthropogenic stresses. Soil samples were collected along a 350-m sampling belt in typical tidal freshwater wetlands of Yellow River Delta to investigate nutrient distributions, bacterial community structures and potential metabolic functions under tide and runoff stress by high-throughput sequencing and PICRUSt analysis. The total nitrogen (TN) contents varied greatly while total phosphorous (TP) contents were relatively stable. The bacterial community structures and predicted functions varied along a 350-m sampling belt. Some sulfate-reducing bacteria, nitrifying bacteria, Marmoricola, unclassified_f_Salinisphaeraceae and Oceanococcus exhibited a decreased trend with increasing distances far away from the river bank (B-0m). However, Salinisphaera was more dominant far away from the river bank (B-350m), indicating the stronger tolerance degree under salt stress. Marinobacterium and Marinobacter could be widely detected from B-0m to B-350m, demonstrating that those bacteria could tolerate a broad range of salinity and have its exceptional adaptation capacities. Redundancy analysis (RDA) indicated that nutrient and salinity played an important role in shaping bacterial community composition. NH4+-N and AP were the key factors in explaining the variance of the genus level. Predicted by PICRUSt analysis, nitrogen fixation (NF), nitrogen mineralization (NM), denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) might be the dominant processes of nitrogen metabolism and related genes abundance were abundant in tidal freshwater wetland soils. These findings could provide new insights into the prevention and control of potential nutrient pollution in tidal freshwater wetlands under the dual stress of tide and runoff.
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- Huai Li
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, PR China
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- Key Lab of Groundwater Resources and Environment, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, PR China.
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, PR China
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Li W, Liu X, Niu S. Differential responses of the acidobacterial community in the topsoil and subsoil to fire disturbance in Pinus tabulaeformis stands. PeerJ 2019; 7:e8047. [PMID: 31844567 PMCID: PMC6911345 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Acidobacteria is found to be dominant and abundant in forest soil, and performs specific ecological functions (such as cellulose decomposition and photosynthetic capacity, etc.). However, relative limited is known about its changing patterns after a fire interruption. In this study, the response of soil Acidobacteria to a wildfire disturbance was investigated using the Illumina MiSeq sequencing system. The research area was classified by different severities of fire damage (high, moderate, and low severity, and an unburnt area), and samples were collected from various soil layers (0–10 cm as topsoil; 10–20 cm as subsoil). We obtained a total of 986,036 sequence reads; 31.77% of them belonged to Acidobacteria. Overall, 18 different Acidobacteria subgroups were detected, with subgroups 4, 6, 1, 3, and 2 the most abundant, accounting for 31.55%, 30.84%, 17.42%, 6.02%, and 5.81% of acidobacterial sequences across all samples, respectively. Although no significant differences in acidobacterial diversity were found in the same soil layer across different fire severities, we observed significantly lower numbers of reads, but higher Shannon and Simpson indices, in the topsoil of the high-severity fire area than in the subsoil. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis and permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) also revealed significant differences in the acidobacterial community structure between the two soil layers. Soil pH, total nitrogen, NH4+-N, the Shannon index of understory vegetation and canopy density were the major drivers for acidobacterial community structure in the topsoil, while soil pH and organic matter were significant factors in the subsoil. A variance partitioning analysis (VPA) showed that edaphic factors explained the highest variation both in the topsoil (15.6%) and subsoil (56.3%). However, there are large gaps in the understanding of this field of research that still need to be explored in future studies.
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- Weike Li
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.,Fire Engineering, China Fire and Rescue Institute, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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Pino-Otín MR, Val J, Ballestero D, Navarro E, Sánchez E, Mainar AM. Impact of Artemisia absinthium hydrolate extracts with nematicidal activity on non-target soil organisms of different trophic levels. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2019; 180:565-574. [PMID: 31129435 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.05.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Natural pesticides are considered a good alternative to synthetic pesticides to reduce environmental impacts. However, biopesticides may have unknown effects on the environment, and can affect non-target organisms. In this study, the ecotoxicological effects of an aqueous extract (hydrolate) from Spanish populations of Artemisia absinthium (var. Candial) showing a promising biopesticide activity, were evaluated on non-target soil organisms from different trophic levels (natural microbial communities characterized through 16S rRNA gene sequencing, the earthworm Eisenia fetida and the plant Allium cepa). The hydrolate usually was considered as a by-product of the distillation to obtain essential oils. However, recently has been found to have nematicide properties. The hydrolate caused acute toxicity at values of LC50 of 3.87% v/v for A. cepa and 0.07 mL/g for E. fetida. All the concentrations except for the most diluted (1% v/v) reduced the bacterial physiological activity compared to controls (LC50 = 25.72% v/v after 24 h of exposure). The hydrolate also slightly altered the ability of the microbial community to degrade carbon substrates. These results indicate that the hydrolate from A. absinthium may affect the survival and metabolic abilities of key soil organisms.
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- M Rosa Pino-Otín
- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, 50830, Zaragoza, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, 50830, Zaragoza, Spain; Colegio Internacional Ánfora, c/ Pirineos, 8, 50410, Cuarte de Huerva, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, 50830, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciónes Científicas, Av. Montañana 1005, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Colegio Internacional Ánfora, c/ Pirineos, 8, 50410, Cuarte de Huerva, Zaragoza, Spain
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- I3A, Universidad de Zaragoza, c/ Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain
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Liu Y, Tong T, Li B, Xie S. Dynamics of bacterial communities in a river water treatment wetland. ANN MICROBIOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s13213-019-01454-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Zhang X, Zhang L, Zhang L, Ji Z, Shao Y, Zhou H, Bao Y, Qu Y, Liu L. Comparison of rhizosphere bacterial communities of reed and Suaeda in Shuangtaizi River Estuary, Northeast China. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2019; 140:171-178. [PMID: 30803632 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.01.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Revised: 01/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Microbial communities in wetland soils play vital roles in biogeochemical cycling of nutrients. In this study, the soil samples were collected from Suaeda, reed and Suaeda-reed hybrid zones in Shuangtaizi River Estuary, Northeast China, and the rhizosphere bacterial communities were compared using Illumina MiSeq sequencing. The microbial richness, diversity and structure of bacterial communities varied greatly in reed and Suaeda. Canonical correspondence analysis and Mantel test indicated that pH was the most significant factor (P < 0.05) in bacterial community assembly. Proteobacteria was the most dominant phylum, accounting for 45.7-58.0% of the total sequences. Thioprofundum, Thiohalomonas and Exiguobacterium were the predominant genera in Suaeda, while Exiguobacterium, Gillisia, Desulfomonile, Citrobacter, Thioprofundum and Acinetobacter were the core species in reed. PICRUSt analysis revealed similar functional profiles of rhizosphere microbiota in reed and Suaeda. Nitrate reduction related genes were abundant for nitrogen metabolism, whereas assimilatory sulfate reduction was the major process for sulfur metabolism.
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- Xuwang Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Food and Environment, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China; State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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Pino-Otín MR, Ballestero D, Navarro E, González-Coloma A, Val J, Mainar AM. Ecotoxicity of a novel biopesticide from Artemisia absinthium on non-target aquatic organisms. CHEMOSPHERE 2019; 216:131-146. [PMID: 30366267 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.09.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2018] [Revised: 09/11/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Biopesticides are increasingly being used to replace synthetic pesticides for pest control. This change raises concern for its environmental impacts, especially on non-target organisms. In this study, the ecotoxicological effects of a potential nematicide from Spanish populations of Artemisia absinthium (var. Candial) were evaluated on freshwater and aquatic non-target organisms. The study focused on the aqueous extract (hydrolate), the principal component of which ((-) -(Z) -2,6-dimethylocta-5,7-diene-2,3-diol) is responsible for its nematicidal effect. Until now, the hydrolate has been considered a byproduct of the process used to obtain essential oils, and there are no studies on its ecotoxicity from any plant with biopesticide properties. Our results indicated that A. absinthium hydrolate caused acute toxicity for non-target organisms at dilutions as low as 0.2%. The sensitivity of the organisms, from the most to the least sensitive, was: Daphnia magna (LC50 = 0,236%) > Vibrio fisheri (LC50 = 1,85%) > Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (LC50 = 16,49). Moreover, the A. absinthium organic extract was highly toxic to D. magna (LC50 = 0,093 mg/L). A. absinthium hydrolate toxicity was also tested on a natural river microbial community. Bacterial growth was not affected; the physiology of the community was only slightly modified, namely through an increased ability to degrade different substrates, mainly carbohydrates. This study provides for the first time an exhaustive assessment of the environmental exposure of a plant-derived biopesticide and shows that these products may cause a broad range of toxicity on non-target aquatic organisms.
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- Ma Rosa Pino-Otín
- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, 50830 Zaragoza, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, 50830 Zaragoza, Spain.
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, CSIC, Av. Montañana 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, 50830 Zaragoza, Spain.
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- I3A, Universidad de Zaragoza, c/ Mariano Esquillor s/n, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
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Li W, Lv X, Ruan J, Yu M, Song YB, Yu J, Dong M. Variations in Soil Bacterial Composition and Diversity in Newly Formed Coastal Wetlands. Front Microbiol 2019; 9:3256. [PMID: 30687257 PMCID: PMC6333922 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Coastal ecosystems experience some of the most active land–ocean interactions in the world, and they are characterized by high primary productivity and biological diversity in the sediment. Given the roles of microorganisms in soil biogeochemical cycling and their multifaceted influence on soil ecosystems, it is critical to understand the variations and drivers of soil microbial communities across coastal ecosystems. Here, we studied soil bacterial community dynamics at different sites (from seawater to freshwater) in the Yellow River Delta, China. Bacterial community composition and diversity over four seasons were analyzed through 16S rRNA genes. Notably, the bacterial community near the ocean had the lowest alpha-diversity when compared with the other sites. No significant differences in bacterial communities among seasons were found, indicating that seasonal variation in temperature had little influence on bacterial community in the newly formed wetlands in the Yellow River Delta. Bacterial community structure changed substantially along the salinity gradient, revealing a clear ecological replacement along the gradual transformation gradient from freshwater to seawater environment. Redundancy analysis revealed that salinity was the main driver of variations in bacterial community structure and explained 17.5% of the variability. Our study provides a better understanding of spatiotemporally determined bacterial community dynamics in coastal ecosystems.
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- Wenbing Li
- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Quality and Safety Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study of Coastal Ecology, Ludong University, Yantai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Hangzhou City for Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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Hu C, Shui B, Li W, Yang X, Zhang X. Assessing the ecological quality status of transplanted mangrove wetland in the Oujiang estuary, China. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2018; 133:1-8. [PMID: 30041296 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2018] [Revised: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 05/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Although numerous studies have performed ecological quality status (EcoQS) assessments in aquatic ecosystems, knowledge regarding the assessment of the EcoQS of mangrove transplant wetlands is still lacking. Therefore, we investigated the influence of mangrove transplants on the EcoQS by comparing the sediment quality status and benthic quality status in mangroves with those of reference sites (Spartina alterniflora stand and mudflat). The findings confirm that the benthic quality status of mangroves was superior to those of the reference sites. Subsequently, we tested the performances of various indices (AMBI, BENTIX, H', EX, Δ+, and Ʌ+). BENTIX, H', EX and Ʌ+ seemed be more suitable than AMBI and Δ+ for assessing the benthic quality status. The results also confirm that mangrove transplants may not facilitate or restrain the accumulation of heavy metals (except Cu and Hg) in sediments. Moreover, mangrove transplants posed a low ecological risk.
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- Chengye Hu
- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- Fisheries College, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266072, China.
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Cheng Z, Chen Y, Zhang F. Effect of reclamation of abandoned salinized farmland on soil bacterial communities in arid northwest China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 630:799-808. [PMID: 29494981 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2017] [Revised: 02/20/2018] [Accepted: 02/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Understanding the impact of reclamation of abandoned salinized farmland on soil bacterial community is of great importance for maintaining soil health and sustainability in arid regions. In this study, we used field sampling and 454 pyrosequencing methods to investigate the effects of 5-year reclamation treatments on soil properties, bacterial community composition and diversity. The four reclamation treatments are: abandoned salinized farmland (CK), cropland (CL), grassland (GL) and woodland (WL). We have found soil properties are significantly altered by abandoned salinized farmland reclamation. In particular, the lowest soil pH and electrical conductivity (EC) values are observed in CL (P<0.05). The dominant phyla are Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Chloroflexi, Actinobacteria and Acidobacteria in all treatments. At the genus levels, the relative abundance of Bacillus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus and Enterococcus in CK, GL and WL is significantly higher than in CL. Bacterial diversity indices (i.e. ACE, Chao and Shannon) dramatically increase after the reclamation, with the highest in CL. Similar patterns of bacterial communities have been observed in CK, GL and WL soils, but significantly different from CL. Regression analyses indicate that the relative abundance of these phyla are significantly correlated with soil Fe, pH and EC. Results from non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) and redundancy analysis (RDA) indicate that soil Fe content, EC and pH are the most important factors in shaping soil bacterial communities. Overall, results indicate that abandoned salinized farmland reclaimed for CL significantly decrease soil pH and EC, and increase soil bacterial community diversity. Soil Fe concentration, EC and pH are the dominant environmental factors affecting soil bacterial community composition. The important role of Fe concentration in shaping bacterial community composition is a new discovery among the similar studies.
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- Zhibo Cheng
- Agricultural College, Shihezi University, Shihezi City, 832003, China; CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Agricultural College, Shihezi University, Shihezi City, 832003, China.
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Guo XP, Lu DP, Niu ZS, Feng JN, Chen YR, Tou FY, Liu M, Yang Y. Bacterial community structure in response to environmental impacts in the intertidal sediments along the Yangtze Estuary, China. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2018; 126:141-149. [PMID: 29421081 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Revised: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/04/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This study was designed to investigate the characteristics of bacterial communities in intertidal sediments along the Yangtze Estuary and their responses to environmental factors. The results showed that bacterial abundance was significantly correlated with salinity, SO42- and total organic carbon, while bacterial diversity was significantly correlated with SO42- and total nitrogen. At different taxonomic levels, both the dominant taxa and their abundances varied among the eight samples, with Proteobacteria being the most dominant phylum in general. Cluster analysis revealed that the bacterial community structure was influenced by river runoff and sewerage discharge. Moreover, SO42-, salinity and total phosphorus were the vital environmental factors that influenced the bacterial community structure. Quantitative PCR and sequencing of sulphate-reducing bacteria indicated that the sulphate reduction process occurs frequently in intertidal sediments. These findings are important to understand the microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycles in estuarine environments.
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- Xing-Pan Guo
- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China; State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai 200062, China.
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Xue L, Ren H, Li S, Leng X, Yao X. Soil Bacterial Community Structure and Co-occurrence Pattern during Vegetation Restoration in Karst Rocky Desertification Area. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2377. [PMID: 29250053 PMCID: PMC5717032 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2017] [Accepted: 11/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Vegetation restoration has been widely used in karst rocky desertification (KRD) areas of southwestern China, but the response of microbial community to revegetation has not been well characterized. We investigated the diversity, structure, and co-occurrence patterns of bacterial communities in soils of five vegetation types (grassland, shrubbery, secondary forest, pure plantation and mixed plantation) in KRD area using high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. Bray-Curtis dissimilarity analysis revealed that 15 bacterial community samples were clustered into five groups that corresponded very well to the five vegetation types. Shannon diversity was positively correlated with pH and Ca2+ content but negatively correlated with organic carbon, total nitrogen, and soil moisture. Redundancy analysis indicated that soil pH, Ca2+ content, organic carbon, total nitrogen, and soil moisture jointly influenced bacterial community structure. Co-occurrence network analysis revealed non-random assembly patterns of bacterial composition in the soils. Bryobacter, GR-WP33-30, and Rhizomicrobium were identified as keystone genera in co-occurrence network. These results indicate that diverse soil physicochemical properties and potential interactions among taxa during vegetation restoration may jointly affect the bacterial community structure in KRD regions.
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- Liang Xue
- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, China
- Observation and Research Station for Rock Desert Ecosystem, Puding, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, China
- Observation and Research Station for Rock Desert Ecosystem, Puding, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, China
- Observation and Research Station for Rock Desert Ecosystem, Puding, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, China
- Observation and Research Station for Rock Desert Ecosystem, Puding, China
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- Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, China
- Observation and Research Station for Rock Desert Ecosystem, Puding, China
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Chen X, Yang J, Zhu X, Liang X, Lei Y, He C. N-fixing trees in wetland restoration plantings: effects on nitrogensupply and soil microbial communities. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:24749-24757. [PMID: 27658403 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-7454-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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To investigate the impact of an exotic Frankia nodulated tree (Alnus trabeculosa) on soil nitrogen content, soil microbial composition, and the abundance of N turnover-related functional microorganism community, we compared the community structure and abundance of key functional genes (nifH, bacterial/archaeal amoA, and nosZ) in the rhizosphere and nonrhizosphere of monoculture of Phragmites australis and A.trabeculosa-P.australis mixed communities by MiSeq Illumina sequencing and real-time PCR, respectively. The introduction of Frankia nodulated tree to recover degraded wetland was effective in the accumulation of soil organic carbon and nitrogen, which was the key factor to impact on the bacterial community composition revealed by canonical correspondence analysis. Acidobacteria and Proteobacteria were the dominant bacterial phylums while seven rare phyla appeared the most phylogenetically different among the investigated soil of two vegetations, including Chlorobi, Cyanobacteria, OD1, OP11, TM6, TM7, and GN02. The gene copy numbers of nifH were ranged from 2.28 × 108 to 2.96 × 109 copies g-1 dry soil in the wetland, and which were significantly higher in soil samples from P. australis than that from A.trabeculosa. While the abundance of nosZ in both rhizosphere and nonrhizosphere soils of A.trabeculosa-P.australis mixed communities was significantly lower compared with P.australis monoculture. The potential nitrification (PNA) (0.15-0.41 mg NOx-N kg-1 dry soil d-1) in the rhizosphere of A. trabeculosa was significantly higher than that of P. australis, and the soil denitrification enzyme activity (DEA) (0.42-0.90 nmol N2O-N g-1 dry soil h-1) was lower in the mixed community compared with monoculture of P. australis. The introduced planting of Frankia nodulated tree effectively accumulated soil organic carbon and nitrogen and reduce the relative abundance and activity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria and denitrification bacteria.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 20072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 20072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 20072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 20072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 20072, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 20072, People's Republic of China.
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Bacterial community structure and function shift along a successional series of tidal flats in the Yellow River Delta. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36550. [PMID: 27824160 PMCID: PMC5099912 DOI: 10.1038/srep36550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Coastal ecosystems play significant ecological and economic roles but are threatened and facing decline. Microbes drive various biogeochemical processes in coastal ecosystems. Tidal flats are critical components of coastal ecosystems; however, the structure and function of microbial communities in tidal flats are poorly understood. Here we investigated the seasonal variations of bacterial communities along a tidal flat series (subtidal, intertidal and supratidal flats) and the factors affecting the variations. Bacterial community composition and diversity were analyzed over four seasons by 16S rRNA genes using the Ion Torrent PGM platform. Bacterial community composition differed significantly along the tidal flat series. Bacterial phylogenetic diversity increased while phylogenetic turnover decreased from subtidal to supratidal flats. Moreover, the bacterial community structure differed seasonally. Canonical correspondence analysis identified salinity as a major environmental factor structuring the microbial community in the sediment along the successional series. Meanwhile, temperature and nitrite concentration were major drivers of seasonal microbial changes. Despite major compositional shifts, nitrogen, methane and energy metabolisms predicted by PICRUSt were inhibited in the winter. Taken together, this study indicates that bacterial community structure changed along the successional tidal flat series and provides new insights on the characteristics of bacterial communities in coastal ecosystems.
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Jiang Y, Wei L, Zhang H, Yang K, Wang H. Removal performance and microbial communities in a sequencing batch reactor treating hypersaline phenol-laden wastewater. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2016; 218:146-152. [PMID: 27359064 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.06.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Revised: 06/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Hypersaline phenol-rich wastewater is hard to be treated by traditional biological systems. In this work, a sequencing batch reactor was used to remove phenol from hypersaline wastewater. The removal performance was evaluated in response to the variations of operating parameters and the microbial diversity was investigated by 454 pyrosequencing. The results showed that the bioreactor had high removal efficiency of phenol and was able to keep stable with the increase of initial phenol concentration. DO, pH, and salinity also affected the phenol removal rate. The most abundant bacterial group was phylum Proteobacteria in the two working conditions, and class Gammaproteobacteria as well as Alphaproteobacteria was predominant subgroup. The abundance of bacterial clusters was notably different along with the variation of operation conditions, resulting in changes of phenol degradation rates. The high removal efficiency of phenol suggested that the reactor might be promising in treating phenol-laden industrial wastewater in high-salt condition.
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- Yu Jiang
- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
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Xu F, Li M, Zhou D, Liu X, Wang R, Guo W. The Response of Wetland Plant Communities to Disturbance: Alleviation through Symmetric Disturbance and Facilitation. POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 2016. [DOI: 10.3161/15052249pje2016.64.3.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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