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Published on: May 2, 2025
[Characteristics of Bacterial Communities in Surface-flow Constructed Wetlands]
Jia-Ming Wei1,2,3, Li-Juan Cui1,2,3, Wei Li1,2,3
1Institute of Wetland Research, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China.
Abstract:
Employing high-throughput sequencing as the method, this study analyzed the relationship between the water environment and the microbial community structure in the surface-flow constructed wetland. The results showed that: the mean Shannon-Wiener index was 6.57 and there were mainly 18 categories in the microbial community, including Proteobacterice (38.97%), Bacteroidetes (15.63%) etc. Of these, the total content of 22 genera was over 1%. The microbial biodiversity showed an increasing trend at the beginning and then turned to a decreasing trend in the flowing direction. The results also revealed that pH, ORP, NH4+-N, NO2--N and TN acted as important restricting factors for the microbial community.
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