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Open AccessLong-term warming in a Mediterranean-type grassland affects soil bacterial functional potential but not bacterial taxonomic composition
Climate warming is known to impact ecosystem composition and functioning. However, it remains largely unclear how soil microbial communities respond to long-term, moderate warming. In this study, we used Illum...
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Open AccessGene-informed decomposition model predicts lower soil carbon loss due to persistent microbial adaptation to warming
Soil microbial respiration is an important source of uncertainty in projecting future climate and carbon (C) cycle feedbacks. However, its feedbacks to climate warming and underlying microbial mechanisms are s...
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Electrochemical degradation of ciprofloxacin on BDD anode using a differential column batch reactor: mechanisms, kinetics and pathways
A growing number of electrochemical oxidation system was employed for the degradation of refractory contaminants. In this study, a boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode/Ti cathode equipped in the differential column...
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Climate warming accelerates temporal scaling of grassland soil microbial biodiversity
Determining the temporal scaling of biodiversity, typically described as species–time relationships (STRs), in the face of global climate change is a central issue in ecology because it is fundamental to biodi...
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Degradation of diethyl phthalate (DEP) by vacuum ultraviolet process: influencing factors, oxidation products, and toxicity assessment
The vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) process, which can directly produce hydroxyl radical from water, is considered to be a promising oxidation process in degrading contaminants of emerging concern, because of no need...
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Climate warming leads to divergent succession of grassland microbial communities
Accurate climate projections require an understanding of the effects of warming on ecological communities and the underlying mechanisms that drive them1–3. However, little is known about the effects of climate wa...
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Inverse Reconstruction of Fracture Splitting Connecting Rod and its Strength and Fatigue Life
To investigate the strength and fatigue life of a fracture-split connecting rod, this study combines experiments on connecting rod fracture splitting, three-dimensional reconstruction technology and the finite...
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Open AccessDiffusion in translucent media
Diffusion is the result of repeated random scattering. It governs a wide range of phenomena from Brownian motion, to heat flow through window panes, neutron flux in fuel rods, dispersion of light in human tiss...
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The influences of separators on capacitive deionization systems in the cycle of adsorption and desorption
This research focused on the influence of different separator compartments on the performance of capacitive deionization (CDI) cells in terms of brackish water treatment. For comparison, different separators i...
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Assessment of the potential health risks of heavy metals in soils in a coastal industrial region of the Yangtze River Delta
Soil heavy metal contamination is a serious environmental problem. Human beings may be directly exposed to heavy metals in soils through the inhalation of soil particles, dermal contact, and oral ingestion, wh...
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Open AccessOrganic carbon prediction in soil cores using VNIR and MIR techniques in an alpine landscape
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), including visible and near-infrared (VNIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) radiation, is a rapid, accurate and cost-effective technique for estimating soil organic carbon (SOC). ...
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Magnetic EDTA functionalized CoFe2O4 nanoparticles (EDTA-CoFe2O4) as a novel catalyst for peroxymonosulfate activation and degradation of Orange G
EDTA functionalized CoFe2O4 nanoparticles (EDTA-CoFe2O4) synthesized using a facile one-pot solvothermal method were employed as catalysts to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) with Orange G (OG) as the target poll...
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Enhanced degradation of Orange G by permanganate with the employment of iron anode
Iron anode was employed to enhance the degradation of Orange G (OG) by permanganate (EC/KMnO4). Continuously generated Fe2+ from iron anode facilitated the formation of fresh MnO2, which plays a role in catalyzin...
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HuMiChip2 for strain level identification and functional profiling of human microbiomes
With the massive data generated by the Human Microbiome Project, how to transform such data into useful information and knowledge remains challenging. Here, with currently available sequencing information (ref...
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Degradation of carbamazepine by UV/chlorine advanced oxidation process and formation of disinfection by-products
Pharmaceuticals in water are commonly found and are not efficiently removed by current treatment processes. Degradation of antiepileptic drug carbamazepine (CBZ) by UV/chlorine advanced oxidation process was s...
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Degradation of Diuron by Electrochemically Activated Persulfate
An electrochemically activated persulfate (EC/PS) system was proposed for the degradation of herbicide diuron in this study. In the EC/PS system, the ferrous ions (Fe2+) produced from iron electrode can activate ...
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Characterization of field scale soil variability using remotely and proximally sensed data and response surface method
Soil salinization of the reclaimed tidelands is problematic. Therefore, there is a need to characterize the spatial variability of soil salinity associated with soil moisture and other soil properties across t...
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Degradation of oxcarbazepine by UV-activated persulfate oxidation: kinetics, mechanisms, and pathways
The degradation kinetics and mechanism of the antiepileptic drug oxcarbazepine (OXC) by UV-activated persulfate oxidation were investigated in this study. Results showed that UV/persulfate (UV/PS) process appe...
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Farmland productivity and its application in spatial zoning of agricultural production: a case study in Zhejiang province, China
The spatial distribution of farmland productivity is important for reducing the loss of productive farmland and develo** sustainable agro-ecosystems in China. This study calculated theoretical, realizable an...
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Open AccessThe functional gene composition and metabolic potential of coral-associated microbial communities
The phylogenetic diversity of coral-associated microbes has been extensively examined, but some contention remains regarding whether coral-associated microbial communities are species-specific or site-specific...
