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Estimating Sediment Denitrification Rates Using Cores and N2O Microsensors
Published on: December 6, 2018
Effects of temperature shock on N2O emissions from denitrifying activated sludge and associated active bacteria
Xiaojun Wang1, Chengsong Ye1, Zhaoji Zhang1
1CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
Abstract:
To investigate the effects of temperature shock on N2O emissions, four treatments with rapidly changing incubation temperature from the control (20 °C) to 4, 12, 25, or 34 °C were conducted. Results showed that higher N2O emissions (0.023-0.37%) were observed when reactor contents received temperature shocks. N2O emissions increased as the temperature interval increased. Nitrate, nitrite, and nitrous oxide reduction rates generally followed the order: 34 °C > 25 °C > 20 °C > 12 °C > 4°C. Overall, the low-temperature shocks down-regulated and high-temperature shocks up-regulated the expression of denitrifying genes. However, the transcription rate of norB/nosZ and nirS/nosZ could not explain higher N2O emission. The increased N2O emissions might be more related to post-transcriptional regulation and enzyme activity (Q10 value). The results of cDNA sequencing showed that the active microbial community was relatively stable. Among the members of top 15 genera with active transcripts, Flavobacterium, Comamonadaceae and Xanthomonadales were the dominant denitrifying bacteria.
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