Enhancement of the mariculture wastewater treatment based on the bacterial-microalgal consortium by Binghan Xie, Zhipeng Li, Dashuai Si, Xiaodong Yang, Xiankun Qu, Heng Liang, Zhongsen Yan, Hong You

“…Though bacterial-microalgal consortium (BM) system showed significant advantages for the mariculture wastewater treatment, how the high saline to the degradation of nitrogen, phosphorus and organic component shift need to be further investigated. …”
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Characterization of a New <i>Pseudomonas Putida</i> Strain Ch2, a Degrader of Toxic Anthropogenic Compounds <i>Epsilon</i>-Caprolactam and Glyphosate by Tatiana Z. Esikova, Tatiana O. Anokhina, Nataliya E. Suzina, Tatiana V. Shushkova, Yonghong Wu, Inna P. Solyanikova

“…This strain has a unique ability to utilize toxic synthetic compounds such as <i>epsilon</i>-caprolactam (CAP) as a sole carbon and energy source and the herbicide glyphosate (GP) as a sole source of phosphorus. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the 16S rRNA gene of Ch2 revealed that the strain belongs to the species <i>Pseudomonas putida</i>. …”
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Effects of Different Parts on the Chemical Composition, Silage Fermentation Profile, In Vitro and In Situ Digestibility of Paper Mulberry by Yangyi Hao, Shuai Huang, Gaokun Liu, Jun Zhang, Gang Liu, Zhijun Cao, Yajing Wang, Wei Wang, Shengli Li

“…The highest crude protein, ether extract, water-soluble carbohydrate, ash, calcium, phosphorus, amino acid contents, and butter capacity were observed in the leaf (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Structural Characteristics of Periphytic Algal Community and Its Relationship with Environmental Factors in the Taiyuan Region of the Fenhe River by Kangxu Zhao, Jing Yang, Junping Lv, Qi Liu, Xudong Liu, Shulian Xie, Jia Feng

“…The correlation analysis between the epiphytic algae and environmental factors showed that the cell density of algae was significantly correlated with dissolved oxygen (DO), phosphate (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msubsup><mrow><mo>P</mo><mo>O</mo></mrow><mn>4</mn><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>−</mo></mrow></msubsup></semantics></math></inline-formula>-P), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total phosphorus (TP), and transparency (SD) in the wet season. …”
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Recovery of lithium salt from spent lithium‐ion battery by less polar solvent wash and water extraction by Hao Du, Yuqiong Kang, Chenglei Li, Yun Zhao, Yao Tian, Jian Lu, Zhaoyang Chen, Ning Gao, Zhike Li, John Wozny, Tao Li, Li Wang, Naser Tavajohi, Feiyu Kang, Baohua Li

“…The lithium salt extracting efficiency achieved in this way can be as high as 99.8%, and fluorine and phosphorus of LiPF6 can be fixed in the form of stable metal fluoride and phosphate by hydrothermal method. …”
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Impact of <i>Arbuscular mycorrhizal</i> Fungal Strains Isolated from Soil on the Growth, Yield, and Fruit Quality of Tomato Plants under Different Fertilization Regimens by Wissame Chafai, Kaoutar Haddioui, Hana Serghini-Caid, Hicham Labazi, Mashail N. AlZain, Omar Noman, Mohammad Khalid Parvez, Mohamed Addi, Ahmed Khalid

“…Importantly, the combination of inoculation with a reduced dose of NPK fertilizer (50% of the recommended amount) resulted in significantly elevated concentrations of calcium (Ca), potassium (K), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and phosphorus (P) in the plants, attributable to the heightened mycorrhizal colonization of the roots. …”
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Assessment of the influence of using green tea waste and fish waste as soil amendments for biosolarization on the growth of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. ramosa Hort.) by Yunfan Zou, Bixia Qiu, Bixia Qiu, Fanqi Lin, Wanfei Wu, Runlin Guo, Jiani Xing, Zihui Zhao, Avi Shpigelman, Yigal Achmon, Yigal Achmon, Yigal Achmon

“…FW at 1% (w/w, mass fraction of FW in total soil-waste mixture) promoted cultivar growth despite the significant reduction of the nitrogen (p value=0.02) and phosphorus (p value=0.03) contents in the cultivar leaves. …”
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Análise da suplementação de carboidratos e solução isotônica sobre parâmetros hematológicos e bioquímicos de jogadores profissionais de futebol em condições reais de treinamento El... by Luciano de Oliveira Siqueira, Jaíse Bortoluzzi, Fabio Zanin, Suellen Savi, Ana Paula Deliberal, Patrícia Castelli Canal, Hugo Tourinho Filho, José Cláudio Fonseca Moreira

“…The results show that intense exercise caused a variable degree of urinary stasis and electrolyte changes caused by a marked decrease in serum sodium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and glucose (p <0.05), which was not modified by any type of supplementation protocol under the conditions proposed in this study. …”
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Estimating Community-Level Plant Functional Traits in a Species-Rich Alpine Meadow Using UAV Image Spectroscopy by Yi-Wei Zhang, Tiejun Wang, Yanpei Guo, Andrew Skidmore, Zhenhua Zhang, Rong Tang, Shanshan Song, Zhiyao Tang

“…Meanwhile, the estimation accuracies for nitrogen content, phosphorus content, plant height and leaf dry matter content were relatively low, with the highest <i>R</i>² varying from 0.3 (nRMSE = 0.24) to 0.54 (nRMSE = 0.20). …”
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The Influence of Organic and Conventional Cultivation Patterns on Physicochemical Property, Enzyme Activity and Microbial Community Characteristics of Paddy Soil by Chengyu Xu, Yulin Li, Xue Hu, Qian Zang, Hengyang Zhuang, Lifen Huang

“…The results revealed that organic cultivation increased the contents of alkali-hydrolyzable nitrogen, available phosphorus, available potassium and organic substances in both topsoil and undersoil as well as sucrase and urease activity in the undersoil. α diversity indicated that bacterial abundance in both topsoil and undersoil was organic > conventional cultivation; the microbial diversity index in the undersoil under organic cultivation technique was greater than that of conventional cultivation. …”
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Development of a diet quality score and adherence to the Swiss dietary recommendations for vegans by Natalie S. Bez, Joyce Haddad, Giulia S. Tedde, Karolin Rose, Aljoscha V. Ivanov, Marina Milazzo, Joëlle Wickart, Giulia Casale, Michele D’Ascanio, Klazine Van der Horst, Isabelle Herter-Aeberli, Leonie H. Bogl

“…The DQS-V had a significantly positive correlation with intakes of fibre, polyunsaturated fatty acids, potassium, zinc, and phosphorus intakes (p’s < 0.05) but was negatively correlated with vitamin B12 and niacin intakes (p’s < 0.05). …”
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Response of soil carbon fractions and enzyme activities to mowing management on in a coastal wetland of the yellow river delta by Qian Cui, Hongjun Yang, Guangmei Wang, Jinzhao Ma, Lu Feng, Jingtao Liu

“…Results showed that mowing treatments led to overall increases in soil nutrients [total carbon (TC), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), NH4+, and NO3−] and decreases in soil C/N ratio. …”
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Long-Term Traditional Fertilization Alters Tea Garden Soil Properties and Tea Leaf Quality in Bangladesh by Israt Jahan, Jannat Shopan, Md. Masudur Rahman, Animesh Sarkar, Md. Abdul Baset, Zheng Zhang, Xin Li, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Md. Kamrul Hasan

“…Moreover, continuous application of traditional fertilizers over twenty-five years promoted not only the deficiency of phosphorus (P) and mineral-based cations, such as potassium (K⁺), calcium (Ca²⁺), and magnesium (Mg²⁺), but also increased manganese (Mn²⁺) and aluminum (Al³⁺) toxicity in soils, which suppressed the yield and quality of tea. …”
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Gramineae-legumes mixed planting effectively reduces soil and nutrient loss in orchards by Linyang Li, Peng Chen, Kaili Wang, Runqin Zhang, Xiaoliang Yuan, Le Ge, Qian Li, Yi Liu, Xiaoquan Zhang, Zhiguo Li

“…Implementing cover crops as a conservation management strategy mitigates the loss of water, soil, nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) by introducing vegetation during non-crop seasons or in the spaces between rows instead of leaving the land bare. …”
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Algal Bloom Ties: Spreading Network Inference and Extreme Eco-Environmental Feedback by Haojiong Wang, Elroy Galbraith, Matteo Convertino

“…Algal blooms are important ecosystem regulators of nutrient cycles; however, chlorophyll-a outbreaks cause vast ecosystem impacts, such as aquatic species mortality and carbon flux alteration due to their effects on water turbidity, nutrient cycling (nitrogen and phosphorus in particular), salinity and temperature. …”
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The lattice thermal conductivity in monolayers group-VA: from elements to binary compounds by Lu Liu, Chengxiao Peng, Shujuan Jiang, Zhenzhen Feng, Guangbiao Zhang, Chao Wang, Peiyu Zhang, Ming Hu

“…The lattice thermal conductivity ( ${\kappa }_{L}$ ) of the monolayers of partial group-VA elements and binary compounds are systemically investigated by the first-principles calculations and phonon Boltzmann transport equation (PBTE), including aW-antimonene, α -arsenene, black phosphorus, α -SbAs, α -SbP and α -AsP. The ${\kappa }_{L}$ values decrease with the increasing of atomic mass for these materials with similar geometry and valence structures. …”
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Sub-Watershed Parameter Transplantation Method for Non-Point Source Pollution Estimation in Complex Underlying Surface Environment by Xuekai Chen, Guojian He, Xiaobo Liu, Bogen Li, Wenqi Peng, Fei Dong, Aiping Huang, Weijie Wang, Qiuyue Lian

“…Among the different soil types, paddy soil was responsible for the largest pollution load of total nitrogen and total phosphorus discharge into the lake. The zones with slopes of 0–18° were found to be the appropriate area for farming. …”
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Effects of Straw Returning and New Fertilizer Substitution on Rice Growth, Yield, and Soil Properties in the Chaohu Lake Region of China by Mei Luo, Ying Liu, Jing Li, Tingfeng Gao, Sheng Wu, Lei Wu, Xijun Lai, Hongjun Xu, Hongxiang Hu, Youhua Ma

“…The SRF treatment increased nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) uptake by 18.78% and 28.68%, the harvest indexes of N and P by 1.75% and 0.59%, and the partial productivity of N and P by 2.64% and 2.63%, respectively, compared with the OF treatment. …”
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Topsoil Nutrients Drive Leaf Carbon and Nitrogen Concentrations of a Desert Phreatophyte in Habitats with Different Shallow Groundwater Depths by Bo Zhang, Gangliang Tang, Hanlin Luo, Hui Yin, Zhihao Zhang, Jie Xue, Caibian Huang, Yan Lu, Muhammad Shareef, Xiaopeng Gao, Fanjiang Zeng

“…Groundwater depth; groundwater pH and the degree of mineralization of groundwater; topsoil pH and salt concentration; topsoil and leaf carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentrations of phreatophytic <i>Alhagi sparsifolia</i> grown at groundwater depths of 1.3–2.2 m in the saturated aquifer zone in a desert–oasis ecotone in northwestern China were investigated. …”
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Effects of CaO on the Clonal Growth and Root Adaptability of Cypress in Acidic Soils by Zhen Zhang, Guoqing Jin, Tan Chen, Zhichun Zhou

“…In this investigation, a potted-plant experiment was set up with three concentrations of calcium oxide (CaO) fertilizer (0, 3, and 6 g·kg⁻¹) added under local soil conditions with 0 and 3 g·kg⁻¹ nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) fertilizer. The effects of CaO on the growth, root development, and nutrient uptake and utilization efficiency of cypress clones were analyzed. …”
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