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Organic matter removal was 18% higher in closed-circuit mode than in open-circuit mode in both integrated systems (P-CWMFC and NP-CWMFC), and these differences were significant (p  less then  0.05). With respect to the performance of microbial fuel cells, the maximum power density (8.6 mW/m2) was achieved at an organic loading rate of 7.9 g COD/m2 d with an internal resistance and coulombic efficiency of 251 Ω and 2.4%, respectively. The results obtained in this work can provide positive impacts on CW development by enhancing anaerobic degradation without forced aeration.Rice paddy nitrogen (N) loss is a great concern leading to a high risk of receiving water pollution. Various models have been applied as practical tools for simulation of the nutrient loss amount, and pathways or yield change affected by management factors in previous studies. However, N loss features of rice paddies in northern regions have received less attention and few model simulation studies have combined crop yield and N loss to simultaneously meet the needs of yield maintenance and environmental protection. To consider benefits to local farmers and to assess the paddy N loss features and factors in northeast China, rice yields and water borne N losses in 2013-2017 were simulated using the APSIM-Oryza model applied to Xingkai Lake Farm. Different from subtropical regions, high field ridges and lower rainfall limit local paddy overflow occurrence except after unexpected storms after irrigation in dry years or serial rainfall events, which result in subsurface N loss during stages of tillering (Ti) to flowering (Fl) which comprise the dominant pathway accounting for 50.03-69.99% of the total water borne N loss. The correlation analysis results also indicate irrigation and the applied N amount more significantly affect local paddy N loss than does precipitation. In each year, stimulated by an increase in the applied N amount, increasing rice yield (symbolizing crop growth status) indicated N loss implicitly rose. But under similar applied N amount range, inter-annual N loss results showed weaker growth status result in a higher N loss. Based on local N loss features, nutrient conservation practices including planting density increase or side strip application, and net N loss reduction practices including intermittent or recycling irrigation are recommended to limit nutrient loss from a paddy field which would be helpful for optimization of local nutrient conservation and surrounding water environment protection.Understanding how plants and earthworms regulate soil-based ecosystem services can guide design and management of built environments to improve environmental quality. We tested whether plant and earthworm activity results in trade-offs between soil carbon (C) retention and water quality. In a 2 × 2 factorial random block design, we introduced shrubs (Aronia melanocarpa) and earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) to turfgrass (Lolium perenne) sandy loam mesocosms in a greenhouse. We measured soil respiration and soil microclimate every two weeks and leachate every two months. After 15 months, we assessed C and nitrogen (N) in bulk soil and aggregates (> 2000, 2000-250, 250-53 μm). Turfgrass mesocosms with earthworms retained less soil C (6.10 ± 0.20 kg/m2), especially when warmer. Soils planted with shrubs were drier and had 7% lower mean respiration rates than soils without shrubs. Oxaliplatin Turfgrass mesocosms with both shrubs and earthworms retained more soil C (6.66 ± 0.25 kg/m2), even when warmer, and held ~1.5 times more C in >2 mm aggregates than turfgrass-only mesocosms. Turfgrass mesocosms with shrubs and earthworms leached nitrate-N with increased respiration and retained phosphate-P and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) when wetter. In contrast, turfgrass mesocosms with only shrubs had the opposite response by leaching less nitrate-N with increased respiration, and more phosphate-P and DOC when wetter. Overall, shrub and earthworm activity in turfgrass mesocosms led to soil C-nutrient retention trade-offs. Our results reveal potential challenges in managing built environments to both retain soil C and improve water quality.Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) links the emissions and resource abstractions of a product system or process to potential impacts on the environment through characterization factors (CF). For regionalized impact categories like water-use, the regional CFs can vary over several orders of magnitude within the same country. The aggregated country-level CF, often used in LCIA, represents an average of local CF weighted by the local water consumption of all (or most) human water use including water use by all (or most) economic sectors. There is, however, great variability in spatio-temporal distribution of human water consumption across different industries. This study provides industry-specific water-use CFs for the electricity sector across the US. Our analysis shows that for electricity generation, the use of all-sector aggregated water-use CF would lead to an underestimation of impact scores compared to industry-specific CFs, by two folds. Even within the electricity sector, for two of the major subsectors, electricity based on natural gas and hydroelectricity, the country-level CFs can be significantly different due to the geographic distribution of powerplants. Our findings signify that the use of industry-specific CF can have a high influence in LCIA, especially for impact categories, such as water-use, with great spatio-temporal heterogeneity.The seasonal and fortnightly erosion and sedimentation pattern as well as the bonding characteristics of the mud deposit at the estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) zone of the macrotidal Chikugo River estuarine channel were studied during 2005-2008 using the periodical topographic surveys and mud sampling along with continuous monitoring of water level, turbidity and flow velocity. The results revealed that the estuary was influenced by the tidal forcing during the dry season. This tidal forcing accelerated the net landward sediment transport and sedimentation takes place in the estuarine channel. On the contrary, the river discharge dominated the estuary during the rainy season which eroded those mud deposit in the estuarine channel and exported to the downstream and the sandy base layer appeared at the bottom. During the dry season, a mud deposit of 1.5-1.8 m thick was formed which was characterized by 90% of mud (fine silt and clay) and 10% of fine sand. The high viscosity ratio and loss on ignition of this mud deposit revealed that its consolidation begins at the early stages of deposition due to thixotropy and the presence of organic matter.
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