A Comparison of the Short-Term Dynamics of Soil “Damage” Due to Enhanced Nitrogen Deposition As Ammonium Sulphate Or Nitric Acid

An experiment has been conducted to contrast the effects of enhanced oxidised and reduced nitrogen deposition upon key chemical parameters in a Calluna moorland podzol. A 40 cm deep podzol profile, derived from granite, was reconstructed in one hundred 4.2 cm diameter cores. for 20 weeks, the cores were subjected twice weekly to simulated rainfall containing either twice ambient nitrogen deposition in Aberdeen, or further enhanced nitrogen (further 2- and 6-fold increases) as nitric acid or ammonium sulphate. to quantify the dynamics of soil change in each horizon, randomly selected cores were destructively analysed every two weeks and the soils analysed. Increased nitrogen inputs, regardless of form, substantially and immediately reduced surface soil pH_water via the mobile anion or salt effect. for the higher nitrogen treatments, the pH reduction was seen throughout the profile. Longer term soil acidification was also seen in the pH_{calcium chloride} results over the 20 weeks. at a given nitrogen deposition rate, the effects of ammonium sulphate and nitric acid on soil pH_{calcium chloride} were similar. the ammonium sulphate treatments were especially effective at reducing base saturation throughout much of the profile, the direct base cation leaching being associated with substantial ammonium accumulation. the results suggest that the direct base cation leaching caused by ammonium deposition needs to be considered when assessing atmospheric pollution “damage” to heathland soils.     

亚热带土壤氮素反硝化气态产物研究

亚热带可变电荷土壤化学性质与温带地区恒电荷土壤有诸多不同特点,使得反硝化具有一些与温带土壤不同的特性,进一步深入研究亚热带土壤反硝化气体产物的组成比例、主要影响因素和机理,将有助于加深对亚热带环境条件下土壤N循环的理解和认识,以及为正确评价亚热带土壤反硝化环境效应提高科学依据。因此,就亚热带土壤厌氧培养条件下反硝化的气态产物问题进行了探讨。土样采自江西典型亚热带红壤地区,在加入K15NO3（10 atom%15N,加入N量为200 mg·kg-1）条件下进行了7 d 30℃、密闭、淹水、充N2的严格厌氧培养试验。试验结果表明：随培养时间推移,15N回收率逐渐下降,土壤总残留的15NO3-质量分数和回收率之间存在显著正相关关系（p〈0.001）,表明反硝化作用越弱的土样回收率越高。总气态氮损失率的估计值和实测值都随培养时间延长呈上升趋势,两者之间存在显著正相关性（p〈0.001）。根据稳定性同位素15N示踪试验结果初步估计,厌氧培养7 d内反硝化作用产生的气态产物中N2O占总气态氮损失的17.1%,N2占8.7%,估计NO可能是主要的反硝化产物之一。以未能回收的氮计算,NO约占总气态氮损失的67.5%~78.6%,平均为74.1%。反硝化气态产物中NO和N2O总量占总气态氮损失的91.3%。NO、N2O和N2分别占总施入氮量的18.6%、4.4%、2.0%。因此,亚热带土壤氮素反硝化过程中主要气态产物可能为NO和N2O,而非对环境无害的N2。     

鱼类肝脏微粒体对于硫代磷酸酯类杀虫剂活化代谢率的种间差异(Species-Related Difference of Liver Microsomes of Fish in Activation of Organothiophosphorus Insecticides)

为了弄清鱼类肝脏微粒体细胞色素P450s(CYPs)对于硫代磷酸酯类杀虫剂活化代谢率的种间差别,选用斑马鱼Brachydanio rerio、麦穗鱼Pseudorasbora parva、剑尾鱼Xiphophorus helleri、篮鳃太阳鱼Leponus macrohirus四种鱼作为受试生物,选用对硫磷、马拉硫磷、毒死蜱三种硫代磷酸酯类杀虫剂作为受试药剂,以外源乙酰胆碱酯酶(AchE)的抑制率为指标,在离体状态下间接测量了杀虫剂活化代谢物的相对生成量.离体试验表明,对于对硫磷,活化代谢物生成量的高低顺序为:斑马鱼、剑尾鱼、麦穗鱼>太阳鱼(p<0.05),最高的麦穗鱼和最低的太阳鱼之间相差10.0倍;对于马拉硫磷和毒死蜱,活化代谢物生成量的高低顺序均为:剑尾鱼>太阳鱼>斑马鱼、麦穗鱼(p<0.05),最高的剑尾鱼和最低的麦穗鱼之间的分别相差66.9和137倍.毒性测定表明,对于对硫磷、马拉硫磷和毒死蜱,四种鱼96hLC50之间的最大差别分别是45、18和77倍.对马拉硫磷而言,96hLC50的种间差异特征与活化代谢物生成量的种间差异特征比较吻合,而对于对硫磷和毒死蜱而言,两者之间的吻合度较低.研究证实了肝脏CYP在活化硫代磷酸酯杀虫剂方面具有明显的种间差异,同时也证实仅以活化代谢物的离体生成量这一指标来衡量鱼类对于硫代磷酸酯杀虫剂的敏感性,其结论可能会较大幅度地偏离生测结果.尽管如此,本研究证实在所测的鱼类当中,斑马鱼属于CYP活性较低的鱼种,而这一特性很可能是造成斑马鱼对于硫代磷酸酯杀虫剂的敏感性偏低的重要原因.     

倒置AAO-MBR处理黑水

针对黑水污染物浓度高、悬浮成分多、碳氮磷比例失调等问题,小试条件下探索了采用倒置AAO-MBR工艺处理黑水的技术可行性,开展了水温、水力停留时间、外加碳源和溶解氧对主要污染物去除的影响。结果表明:冬季低温、HRT为42 h与夏秋季HRT为31 h的除污效果相近,出水的COD、氨氮、TN分别为110、26.7和104.5 mg·L-1;碱度是影响氨氮去除效率的最主要因素;HRT为31 h条件下,未加外碳源(C/N为3.14)时,COD、氨氮、TN平均去除率分别为83.8%、88.2%和52.9%,磷酸盐没有去除效果;外加碳源至C/N为4.63,COD、氨氮、TN和磷酸盐的平均去除率分别提高到93.4%、98.1%、91.3%和20.7%;随着运行时间的延长,MBR出水COD呈下降趋势,平均达到56 mg·L-1,达到一级B排放标准;好氧区的DO控制0.2~0.4 mg·L-1时生物脱氮效率较佳。     

Sulphamethazine in poultry manure changes carbon and nitrogen mineralisation in soils

Antibiotics are newly emerging organic pollutants in manure, soil, vegetables and water. Animal manure application might be leading to the accumulation of antibiotics in the farmland. However, the effect of sulphamethazine (SMZ) on the soil microbial community was scarcely investigated. This study was aimed to evaluate the impact of SMZ on poultry manure, on the structure and function of microbial community, carbon mineralisation, and changes in nitrogen forms in soil via an incubation experiment lasting 56?d. The treatments consisted of poultry manure at 1% wt (PM), PM containing 20?mg?kg^?1 SMZ (PM?+?20SMZ) and PM containing 100?mg?kg^?1 SMZ (PM?+?100SMZ), along with the untreated soil (control). Solid phase extraction was performed to measure the SMZ concentration in soils using high-pressure liquid chromatography. The cumulative CO₂-C was increased in all treated soils over the incubation period compared to the control. The PM?+?100SMZ had the highest increase in cumulative CO₂-C from the soil at 56?d of incubation. The treatment of PM?+?20SMZ showed a short-term decrease in nitrification rate in the soils at 1?d by altering the microbial community composition with 17% dissimilarity and decreasing the abundance of bacteria compared to PM-treated soil. The PM?+?100SMZ increased C mineralisation in the soil.     

鄱阳湖流域多尺度C、N输送通量及其水质参数变化特征

本文选取鄱阳湖流域内从初级支流到最大干流再到湖区(香溪→架竹河→赣江→鄱阳湖)这一联通水系线路为研究对象,通过对丰水期和枯水期内各级河流对应流域及鄱阳湖湖区内水体中的各形态C、N浓度进行监测,计算各级河流间C、N元素运移通量,探讨鄱阳湖流域水体C、N迁移过程机制和水质参数变化特征,为鄱阳湖流域生态系统的综合健康管理提供科学依据.结果表明:(1)鄱阳湖通江流域的C、N浓度呈明显季节变化,其中TIC、TOC、TC浓度丰水期较高,而NO_3~--N和DTN浓度枯水期较高.丰水期TC增加的主要原因是TIC增加,丰水期TN主要以非溶解态存在,而枯水期TN主要以DTN中的NO_3~--N形式存在.(2)鄱阳湖通江流域的C、N输出通量呈明显季节变化,其中香溪各形态C丰水期通量较枯水期小,架竹河、赣江各形态C丰水期通量较枯水期大,香溪、架竹河、赣江流域各形态N在丰水期通量大多较枯水期小,各形态C、N通量与径流量在99%的置信水平上呈极显著正相关关系.(3)鄱阳湖流域水体参数丰水期COND、TDS、pH小于枯水期,丰水期ORP大于枯水期.     

Uncertainty analysis of predicted disturbance from off-road vehicular traffic in complex landscapes at fort hood

The US Army Engineering Research Development Center (ERDC) uses a modified form of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to estimate spatially explicit rates of soil erosion by water across military training facilities. One modification involves the RUSLE support practice factor (P factor), which is used to account for the effect of disturbance by human activities on erosion rates. Since disturbance from off-road military vehicular traffic moving through complex landscapes varies spatially, a spatially explicit nonlinear regression model (disturbance model) is used to predict the distribution of P factor values across a training facility. This research analyzes the uncertainty in this model's disturbance predictions for the Fort Hood training facility in order to determine both the spatial distribution of prediction uncertainty and the contribution of different error sources to that uncertainty. This analysis shows that a three-category vegetation map used by the disturbance model was the greatest source of prediction uncertainty, especially for the map categories shrub and tree. In areas mapped as grass, modeling error (uncertainty associated with the model parameter estimates) was the largest uncertainty source. These results indicate that the use of a high-quality vegetation map that is periodically updated to reflect current vegetation distributions, would produce the greatest reductions in disturbance prediction uncertainty.     

Country-scale phosphorus balancing as a base for resources conservation

In order to effectively conserve the non-renewable resource phosphorus (P), flows and stocks of P must be known at national, regional and global scales. P is a key non-renewable resource because its use as fertilizer cannot be substituted posing a constraint on the global food production in the long-term. This paper presents a methodology to establish country-wide P balances that emphasises resource use. We develop a material flow analysis (MFA) model that comprises all relevant flows and stocks of P in five subsystems, seven processes and 36 material flows. For quantification, statistical data from economic and agricultural sources as well as available information about P partitioning in natural and anthropogenic processes are used. Special attention is paid to data gaps and uncertainties. The model was tested in two case studies on P management in Turkey and Austria. MFA appears to be a tool well suited for establishing country-wide P balances, provided that national statistics are well-structured and accessible. If a common approach is used for modelling P-flows and stocks, regional and national balances can be compared and linked towards larger scale P balances for an improved management of the resource.     

浙北地震空区探讨

分析探讨了浙江鄞县４２级地震及历史上浙北中强震前的地震空区现象,认为孕震空区可能是浙北中等及中强震的中期前兆,并提出浙北孕震空区的特征及判别方法。     

SRT对于污水脱氮过程中N2O产生的影响

试验采用经过长期驯化,控制污泥龄分别为9d和15d的活性污泥,以实际生活污水为研究对象,考察了不同污泥龄(SRT)对污水脱氮过程中N2O的产生量和转化率的影响.结果表明N2O主要产生于污水脱氮的硝化过程中,而反硝化过程的贡献较少.较短的污泥龄有利于脱氮过程中N2O的产生,9d污泥龄的活性污泥系统产生N2O量是15d污泥龄污泥系统的1.2倍,分别为4.62mg·L-1和3.8mg·L-1.不同污泥龄条件下产生N2O的转化率也有所差别,污泥龄较短的活性污泥系统产生N2O的转化率也较高,分别为11.2%和7.8%.系统经长期在较短的污泥龄下运行,并没有影响系统的脱氮效果,两种污泥龄条件下系统的脱氮率都在96%以上.为了减少污水脱氮过程中N20的产生量,应避免污水处理系统过短的污泥龄,造成污水脱氮过程N2O的产量和转化率的大幅升高.