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微生物过程对太湖流域农业及城镇河流N2O的间接排放作用明显且影响显著

 作者:Song, Kang; Senbati, Yeerken; Li, Lu; Zhao, Xiaoli; Xue, Yunpeng; Deng, Min

Inland rivers are hotspots of anthropogenic indirect nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, but the underlying microbial processes remain poorly understood. This study measured N2O fluxes from agricultural and urban rivers in Taihu watershed and investigated the microbial processes driving N2O production and consumption. The N2O fluxes were significantly higher in agricultural rivers (140.1 +/- 89.1 mu mol m-2 d-1) than in urban rivers (25.1 +/- 27.0 mu mol m-2 d-1) (p < 0.001). All wind-based models significantly underestimated N2O flux in urban rivers (p < 0.05) when using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change method because they underestimated the N2O emission factor (EF5r). Wind speed and nitrate were the key factors affecting N2O fluxes in agricultural and urban rivers, respectively. NirK-type denitrifiers produced N2O in urban river water, while nirS-type denitrifiers consumed N2O in the sediments of all rivers. Co-occurrence network analysis indicated organics from Microcystis served as electron donors for denitrifiers (dominated by Flavobacterium) in water, while direct interspecies electron transfer between Thiobacillus and methanogens and between Dechloromonas and sulfate-reducing bacteria enhanced N2O reduction in sediments. This study advances our knowledge on the distinctive microbial processes that determine N2O emissions in inland rivers and illustrates the need to revise EF5r for N2O estimation in urban rivers.
(来源:ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY  出版年:2022  DOI:10.1021/acs.est.1c07980)