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Yuliya Koudryashova, Tatiana Chizhova, Pavel Zadorozhny, Anna Ponomareva and Alena Eskova
The concentrations of 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the sediment of the Tatar Trough were studied. Despite the increase in PAH concentrations over recent decades, which is likely the result of the handling and transportation of fossil fue...
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Niels O. G. Jørgensen, Raju Podduturi, Charlotte Frydenlund Michelsen, Thea Jepsen and Munique de Almeida Bispo Moraes
The cyanobacterial toxin saxitoxin (STX) is mainly associated with the blooms of marine dinoflagellates, but it is also produced by several species of freshwater cyanobacteria. So far, the degradation of STX has only been demonstrated by physicochemical ...
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Lumeng Chao, Xiaodan Ma, Munkhzul Tsetsegmaa, Yaxin Zheng, Hanting Qu, Yuan Dai, Jingpeng Li and Yuying Bao
Vegetation and soil microorganisms are important components of terrestrial ecosystems and play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. However, little is known about the synergistic changes in soil microbial community with aboveground plants in grasslan...
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Xingping Chang, Junfeng Liang, Yang Sun, Lixia Zhao, Bin Zhou, Xiaojing Li and Yongtao Li
Metolachlor is extensively used and the most persistent chloroacetamide herbicide, thereby which its metabolites have been frequently detected in soils and surface and groundwaters. Microbial degradation is predominantly responsible for the removal of me...
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Huijun He, Yongpan Liu, Shaohong You, Jie Liu, He Xiao and Zhihong Tu
Atrazine is a kind of triazine herbicide that is widely used for weed control due to its good weeding effect and low price. The study of atrazine removal from the environment is of great significance due to the stable structure, difficult degradation, lo...
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Alphonse Habineza, Jun Zhai, Tianpeng Mai, Daniel Mmereki, Theoneste Ntakirutimana
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This review paper provides a critical examination on current microbial biodegradation of 2, 4, 6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and its metabolites in soil, with focus on: (i) extent of biological degradation of TNT and its metabolites in soil, (ii) factors affec...
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Parissa Mirjafari, Susan A. Baldwin
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Successful long-term bioremediation of mining-influenced water using complex organic matter and naturally-occurring microorganisms in sub-surface flow constructed wetlands requires a balance between easily and more slowly degrading material. This can be ...
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Parissa Mirjafari and Susan A. Baldwin
Successful long-term bioremediation of mining-influenced water using complex organic matter and naturally-occurring microorganisms in sub-surface flow constructed wetlands requires a balance between easily and more slowly degrading material. This can be ...
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Yanru Wu, Wenquan Yang, Qinyao Li, Qianluo Qiao, Shuai Zhao, Yangcan Zhang, Yanghua Yu, Shengxiang Zhang, Xilai Li and Jiancun Kou
The degradation of alpine meadows on the Qinghai?Tibet Plateau is a major issue affecting both the ecology and the economy. Microorganisms play an important role in soil nutrient cycling and the regulation of ecosystem function. This study aimed to inves...
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Xianshu Liu, Jie Ding, Nanqi Ren, Qingyue Tong and Luyan Zhang
In this study, the high-production-volume chemical benzothiazole (BTH) from synthetic water was fully degraded into less toxic intermediates of simple organic acids using an up-flow internal circulation microbial electrolysis reactor (UICMER) under the h...
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Kaisa Kerminen and Merja Hannele Kontro
Herbicide atrazine easily leaches to groundwater, where it is persistent. We studied whether sonication accelerates atrazine dissipation (100 mg·L-1) in vadose zone sediment slurries. Sediments were from 11.3 to 14.6 m depths in an atrazine-co...
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Kai Ziervogel, Manoj Kamalanathan and Antonietta Quigg
Biological oil weathering facilitated by specialized heterotrophic microbial communities plays a key role in the fate of petroleum hydrocarbon in the ocean. The most common methods of assessing oil biodegradation involve (i) measuring changes in the comp...
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Zachary A. Stoll, Jan Dolfing and Pei Xu
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have recently achieved energy-positive wastewater treatment at pilot scale. Despite these achievements, there is still a limited understanding as to whether all wastewaters contain sufficient amounts of energy and, if so, whet...
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Zachary A. Stoll, Jan Dolfing and Pei Xu
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have recently achieved energy-positive wastewater treatment at pilot scale. Despite these achievements, there is still a limited understanding as to whether all wastewaters contain sufficient amounts of energy and, if so, whet...
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Simon Godin, Pawel Kubica, Anthony Ranchou-Peyruse, Isabelle Le Hecho, Delphine Patriarche, Guilhem Caumette, Joanna Szpunar and Ryszard Lobinski
BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and the different xylene isomers), known for carcinogenic and neurotoxic effects, are common environmental contaminants. The first step for the development of the bioremediation technologies is the detection of inten...
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M.C. Gagliano, S.B. Ismail, A.J.M. Stams, C.M. Plugge, ... J.B. Van Lier
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For the anaerobic biological treatment of saline wastewater, Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is currently a possibility, even though elevated salt concentrations can be a major obstacle. Anaerobic consortia and especially methanogenic archaea are very sensitive...
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Jianguang Wang and Shiyi Li
The use of sludge fermentation broth (FB) as a co-metabolic carbon source for treating 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) wastewater is a novel strategy. The key to the feasibility of this strategy is whether the FB can promote the growth of functional mi...
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Brenda Madrid, Huan Zhang, Carol A. Miles, Michael Kraft, Deirdre Griffin-LaHue and Lisa Wasko DeVetter
The perceived variability of plastic soil-biodegradable mulch (BDM) degradation has generated concerns about its functionality and sustainability, especially in climates and regions where biodegradation may be limited. This study evaluated the effects of...
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Farah Eryssa Khalid, Zheng Syuen Lim, Suriana Sabri, Claudio Gomez-Fuentes, Azham Zulkharnain and Siti Aqlima Ahmad
Oil pollution can cause tremendous harm and risk to the water ecosystem and organisms due to the relatively recalcitrant hydrocarbon compounds. The current chemical method used to treat the ecosystem polluted with diesel is incompetent and expensive for ...
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Xiaogang Chen, Qi Ye, Jinzhou Du and Jing Zhang
Nutrients and organic pollutants transported by submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) play a significant role in controlling water quality, and can lead to the concerned deleterious effects on marine ecosystems. Subterranean estuaries are complicated hab...
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