The effectiveness of a hybrid approach comprising electrocoagulation (EC) and adsorption (AD) (using natural zeolite and/or palygorskite) processes to treat raw sanitary landfill leachate (SLL) was investigated in terms color, dissolved chemical oxygen demand (d-COD), nitrate nitrogen (NO3−-N) ammonium (NH4+-N) removal. Optimal EC conditions were found with current density 30 mA cm−2, Fe electr...

Intensive management of grass seed fields in the poorly drained soils of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, has prompted concern in the capacity of these landscapes and their associated minimally managed riparian areas to process and retain fertilizer N. Our goal was to determine the extent of N losses and effectiveness of a riparian area and an adjacent perennial ryegrass seed field to retain N. T...

*Correspondence: Patricia M. Glibert, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, PO Box 775, 2020 Horns Point Rd., Cambridge, MD 21613, USA e-mail: [email protected] The effect of equivalent additions of nitrogen (N, 30–40μM-N) in different forms (ammonium, NH4 , and nitrate, NO − 3 ) under conditions of different light exposure on phytoplankton community co...

Among the mineral nutrient elements, nitrogen is a kind of macronutrient. Most plant species are able to absorb and assimilate nitrate (NO3–), ammonium (NH4+), urea and amino acids as nitrogen sources. Most soils do not have sufficient N in available form to support desired production levels. Therefore, addition of N from fertilizer is typically needed to maximize crop yields. Many kinds of N f...

Expression of glutamate metabolism enzymes, glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), and glutamine synthetase (GS) are proposed to yield information on the nitrogen (N) to carbon (C) metabolic balance within bacterioplankton communities. Whole-cell assay conditions were optimized, and reactions were linear with time and biomass. Enzyme activities were assayed in seawater cultures from four ecosystems of ...

We compared growth kinetics of Prorocentrum donghaiense cultures on different nitrogen (N) compounds including nitrate (NO3 ), ammonium (NH4 ), urea, glutamic acid (glu), dialanine (diala) and cyanate. P. donghaiense exhibited standard Monod-type growth kinetics over a range of N concentraions (0.5–500 mmol N L for NO3 2 and NH4 , 0.5–50 mmol N L for urea, 0.5–100 mmol N L for glu and cyanate, ...

Environmental problems such as eutrophication caused by excessive nutrient discharge are global challenges. There are complex pollution sources of nitrogen (N) discharge in many river basins worldwide. Knowledge of its pollution sources and their respective load contributions is essential to developing effective N pollution control strategies. N loads from all known anthropogenic pollution sour...

ing beef cattle feedlot manure under tilled and n-till conditions. This study was conducted on a steep (12% average slope) Monona silt loam (fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls) soil near Treynor, Iowa. The experiment was a split-plot with no-till and disked systems as main plots and subplots of manure, fertilizer, and check with or without a grass hedge. A rainfall simulator...

An in-situ experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of tropical storm on the white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) loads in Litopenaeus vannamei rearing ponds. White spot syndrome virus loads, heterotrophic bacteria, Vibrio and water quality (including temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), salinity, pH, NH4-N, and NO2-N) were continually monitored through one tropical storm. The WSSV loads d...