Published March 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Nitrous oxide emission from polyculture constructed wetlands: Effect of plant species

  • 1. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Min Hang, Shanghai 200240 (China)
  • 2. Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, 1 Kanayagawa, Fukushima 960-1296 (Japan)
  • 3. State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan Unviversity, Wuhan 430072 (China)
  • 4. National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba 305-8506 (Japan)
  • 5. School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096 (China)

Description

Loss of nitrogen from the soil-plant system has raised environmental concern. This study assessed the fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O) in the subsurface flow constructed wetlands (CWs). To better understand the mechanism of N2O emission, spatial distribution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in four kinds of wetlands soil were compared. N2O emission data showed large temporal and spatial variation ranging from -5.5 to 32.7 mg N2O m-2 d-1. The highest N2O emission occurred in the cell planted with Phragmites australis and Zizania latifolia. Whereas, the lower emission rate were obtained in the cell planted with P. australis and Typha latifolia. These revealed that Z. latifolia stimulated the N2O emission. Transportation of more organic matter and oxygen for AOB growth may be the reason. The study of AOB also supported this result, indicating that the root structure of Z. latifolia was favored by AOB for N2O formation. - Zizania latifolia has a large contribution to global warming

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.017

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.017;
PII
S0269-7491(07)00294-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Environmental Pollution (1987)
Journal Volume
152
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 351-360
ISSN
0269-7491
CODEN
ENPOEK

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