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Open AccessSoil bacterial community composition and function play roles in soil carbon balance in alpine timberline ecosystems
Soil microbial communities and related key ecological processes play critical roles in timberline delineation and soil carbon balance in alpine ecosystems, which are highly vulnerable to climate change. Accord...
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Machine learning combined with Geodetector quantifies the synergistic effect of environmental factors on soil heavy metal pollution
The critical prerequisite for the prevention and control of soil heavy metal (HM) pollution is the identification of factors that influence soil HM accumulation. The dominant factors have been individually ide...
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Climate and soil management factors control spatio-temporal variation of soil nutrients and soil organic matter in the farmland of Jiangxi Province in South China
This study aims to explore the spatio-temporal variation of soil nutrients as well as soil organic matter (SOM), and clarify the role of environmental and soil management factors in determining soil nutrients ...
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Facile synthesis of CoOOH@MXene to activate peroxymonosulfate for efficient degradation of sulfamethoxazole: performance and mechanism investigation
Using MXene as substrate, CoOOH@MXene with different mass content of CoOOH were prepared and used to active peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the sulfamethoxazole (SMX) degradation. The sample characterizations demo...
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Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability
Unravelling the relationships between network complexity and stability under changing climate is a challenging topic in theoretical ecology that remains understudied in the field of microbial ecology. Here, we...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...