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... The extreme alkalinity of bauxite residue (BR) leads to difficulty with its reuse. Alkaline leachate and dust generation during the stacking process can pollute surrounding soil, air and water. In this work, co-pyrolysis of bauxite residue and sawdust was applied to rapidly produce a soil-like matrix that met the conditions for plant growth as demonstrated by ryegrass pot experiments. The present ...
Methanoculleus; Methanosarcina; bacterial communities; carbon; climate change; global carbon budget; greenhouse gas emissions; hypoxia; landfills; methane production; methanogens; models; municipal solid waste; researchers; India
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... The landfill is an inexpensive way of municipal solid waste (MSW) management and contributes extensively to the total carbon budget and global climate change. Three landfills from two geographically distinct metro- cities of India were taken as model systems to create microcosms and study their physiochemistry, microbiology, and carbon emission. The microcosm experiments revealed that facultative ...
... Sciurus vulgaris (the Eurasian red squirrel) is native to Europe and Asia, but due to habitat destruction or fragmentation, interspecific competition, and infectious diseases, especially in European island areas the species finds itself at the brink of extinction. The repopulation of such bare habitats requires healthy squirrel specimens, either translocated from other wild habitats or reintroduce ...
... Bioaugmentation is an efficient and eco-friendly strategy for the bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Since degrading abilities of soils can greatly alter the abilities of PAH-degrading bacteria, illustrating the potential and mechanism of highly efficient degrading bacteria in different soil environments is of great importance for bioremediation. A PAH-degrading bacterium, ...
... AIMS: To investigate the fermentative products, bacterial community compositions and their metabolic pathways of sorghum (Sorghum dochna Snowden) during ensiling. METHODS AND RESULTS: Sorghum was harvested at soft dough stage and ensiled in laboratory‐scale silos (10 L capacity). Triplicate silos were sampled after 1, 3, 7, 15, 30 and 60 days of ensiling, respectively. The bacterial communities on ...
... Revealing regional distribution and diversity of abundant and rare bacterial communities in different cropping systems are crucial to predict trends of microbial changes in farmlands and understand ecosystem functions. Here, we examined the spatial distribution patterns and calculated differences in diversity and function for abundant and rare bacterial sub-communities across 114 typical dryland f ...
... Intensive cultivation with accompanying nitrogen fertilization leads to soil acidification in croplands of southern China, which in turn, imperils soil health, restricting the sustainability of agricultural production. Application of soil amendments is considered as a potential method for maintaining soil health; however, the underlying soil-health-promoting mechanisms are poorly understood. In th ...
... Excess sludge (ES) largely produced in municipal wastewater treatment plants is known as a waste biomass and the traditional treatment processes such as landfill and incineration are considered as unsustainable due to the negative environmental impact. Fermentation process of ES for the biorefinery of zero-carbon hydrogen has attracted an increasing interesting and was extensively researched in th ...
Acidothermus; Burkholderia; Sphingomonas; bacterial communities; community structure; cultivars; enzyme activity; genotype; microbiome; plant biology; ratooning; rhizosphere; sugar industry; sugarcane; China
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... BACKGROUND: Ratooning in sugarcane is a crucial strategy for ensuring the long-term sustainability of the sugarcane industry. Knowledge gap relating to the interaction between rhizosphere microbiome and ratooning crop, particularly the impact of different sugarcane cultivars on the rhizosphere microbiome in consecutive ratooning, requires additional research. The response of two different sugarcan ...
anaerobic digestion; bacterial communities; biogas; biorefining; gas production (biological); hydrolysis; municipal solid waste; polysaccharides; propionic acid; protein degradation; streams; water
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... The aim of this study is to investigate the performance of a pilot-scale plug-flow reactor (PFR) as a biorefinery system to recover chemicals (i.e., volatile fatty acids (VFAs)), and biogas during the dry thermophilic anaerobic digestion (AD) of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW). The effects of the hydraulic retention time (HRT) on both outputs were studied, reducing the parame ...
... This article presents the first experimental data on the ability of microbial communities from sediments of the Gorevoy Utes natural oil seep to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons under anaerobic conditions. Like in marine ecosystems associated with oil discharge, available electron acceptors, in particular sulfate ions, affect the composition of the microbial community and the degree of hydrocarbon c ...
activated sludge; bacterial communities; drugs; estrone; membrane bioreactors; municipal wastewater; nitrates; nitrogen; organic matter; species richness; temperature; wastewater treatment; Finland
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... In this study, the occurrence of pharmaceuticals, hormones and bacterial community structures was studied at a wastewater treatment plant in Finland having two different parallel treatment lines: conventional activated sludge (CAS) treatment with a sedimentation stage, and a membrane bioreactor (MBR). Influent and effluents were sampled seven times over a period of one year. The bacterial communit ...
... Predatory natural enemies are major insect species in cotton field ecosystems. Microbes that live inside these insects play essential roles in vital host activities, however, the microbiota of these insects have not been well characterized. In this study, we used Illumina 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to investigate microbial diversity of the natural enemies Chrysoperla sinica, Harmonia axyridis, P ...
... This study aims to discuss the following: (1) occurrence and proliferation of antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs); (2) factors influencing antibiotic resistance bacteria and genes in WWTPs; (3) tools to assess antibiotic resistance in WWTPs; (4) environmental contamination of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) from WWTPs; (5) effects ...
... Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) promote the P uptake of host plants not only by themselves but also by regulating P mobilizing bacterial (PMB) community in the plant-AMF-PMB holobiont. However, the differences in PMB community between two important niches (rhizosphere vs. hyphosphere) as regulated by AMF are scarcely revealed. With stylo (Stylosanthes guianensis) and bahiagrass (Paspalum notatu ...
... While interest in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal effects on soil phosphorus (P) have recently increased, field experiments on this topic are lacking. While microcosm studies provided valuable insights, the lack of field studies represents a knowledge gap. Here, we present a field study in which we grew a mycorrhiza-defective tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) genotype (named rmc) and its mycorrh ...
Gallionellaceae; bacterial communities; bioavailability; biochar; cadmium; field experimentation; heavy metals; pig manure; polluted soils; rhizosphere; rice; soil pH; soil quality
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... Soil amendments have been extensively used to remediate heavy metal contaminated soils by immobilizing or altering edaphic properties to reduce the bioavailability of heavy metals. However, the potential influences of long-term soil amendments applications on microbial communities and polluted soil health are still in its infancy despite that have been applied for decades. We used amplicon sequenc ...
ammonia; bacterial communities; biodiversity; calcium ammonium nitrate; climate; community structure; dicyandiamide; field experimentation; fungal communities; grassland soils; grasslands; issues and policy; long term effects; mineralization; nitrification; nitrification inhibitors; nitrogen fertilizers; nitrous oxide; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; sequence analysis; urea; urease
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... Reductions in ammonia (NH₃) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions from agricultural systems are critical for achievement of sustainability targets that underpin international efforts on climate and biodiversity. Urease inhibitors (UI) such as N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT) and nitrification inhibitors (NI) such as dicyandiamide (DCD) slow down microbial and chemical N transformation rates ...
... Patagonian fjords and channels in southern Chile are heterogeneous ecosystems characterized by the interaction of estuarine and marine waters influencing physical-chemical conditions and biological assemblages. Besides salinity, microbial communities from estuarine and marine origin are naturally subjected to changing organic matter quality and variable nutrient concentrations. In this study, we t ...
... BACKGROUND: The bioremediation versatility of soil indigenous microbial community for the degradation of oil contaminated soils has been evidenced previously. In this study, three dominant bacterial strains, Pseudomonas putida (P. putida) and two Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) (accession numbers ATCC‐27853, BAA‐427, and ATCC‐49128), were isolated from three different oil‐contaminated sites ...