Relationship between nutrient availability and content of nitrogen and phosphorus in tissues of the aquatic macrophyte, Eichornia Crassipes (Mart.) Solms

Hydrobiologia ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Gossett ◽  
W. E. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Aquatic Macrophyte ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Eichornia Crassipes

scholarly journals Biogas Generation from Co-Digestion Waste Systems: The Role of Water Hyacinth

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adedeji A. Adelodun ◽  
Temitope M. Olajire ◽  
Ochuko Mary Ojo
Keyword(s):  
Water Hyacinth ◽  
Aquatic Macrophyte ◽  
Biogas Production ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Environmentally Benign ◽  
Organic Loading Rate ◽  
Eichornia Crassipes ◽  
Poultry Droppings ◽  
Pig Wastes

Using biomass as a renewable energy source has earned tremendous interest from researchers in recent decades, especially because the technology is environmentally benign. This article reviews the recent methods for generating biogas from water hyacinth (WH, Eichornia crassipes), arguably the world’s most evasive aquatic macrophyte. Therefore, various economic, environmentally benign, and renewable procedures that enhance biogas production from WH biomass are reviewed. WH has been co-digested with numerous waste types, including poultry droppings, municipal wastes, animal tissue wastes, pig wastes, cow dungs, etc., recording varying success degrees. Other studies focused on optimizing the operation parameters, such as mixing ratio, contact time, pH, temperature, organic loading rate, etc. We observed that most attempts to generate biogas from WH alone were not promising. However, when co-digested with other biomasses or wastes, WH either increases the process rate or improves the methane yield content. Also, the potential of WH as a phytoremdiator-cum-biogas source was investigated. This chapter provides mathematical models, scale-up installation models, and specific experimental results from various studies to guide future study plans toward optimizing CH4 generation from WH co-digestion.

Nutrient fluxes in litterfall and decomposition in four forests along a gradient of soil fertility in southern Ohio

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 794-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph E. J. Boerner
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Soil Nutrient ◽  
Nutrient Concentrations ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Soil Nutrient Availability ◽  
Nutrient Mineralization ◽  
Nutrient Levels ◽  
Fertility Gradient

To determine how soil nutrient availability influences nutrient cycling, fluxes of nutrients through litterfall and decomposition were determined for four forest stands similar in all respects except soil nutrient availability and microclimate, within Neotoma Valley, a small watershed in southern Ohio, U.S.A. Litterfall varied from 10 to 60% among sites while nutrient concentrations and masses in new leaf litter varied as a function of extractable soil nutrient levels. Mass loss from litterbags was significantly higher in more fertile sites. Stepwise regression indicated that initial litter nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations were strongly correlated with relative decomposition rate while lignin concentration and microclimate variables were only correlated weakly. Thus, both litterfall nutrient transfers and decomposition rates were under the control of soil nutrient levels. Nitrogen was immobilized in litter at all sites during the 1st year of decay; litter from more fertile sites mineralized nitrogen during the 2nd year, while that from less fertile sites continued to immobilize nitrogen. Phosphorus and calcium mineralization rates were strongly correlated with the availability of these elements in the soil. Magnesium and potassium were leached rapidly from litter; amounts mineralized were correlated with amounts in litterfall. Interrelations among soil fertility, litterfall, and nutrient mineralization, as well as litter redistribution, are discussed as processes important in the development and maintenance of the soil fertility gradient in this watershed.

scholarly journals Females and hermaphrodites of the gynodioecious Geranium maculatum respond similarly to soil nutrient availability

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Putney ◽  
Mavis Wolf ◽  
Chase Mason ◽  
Shu-Mei Chang
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Soil Nutrient ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Soil Nutrient Availability ◽  
Leaf Quality ◽  
Nitrogen Levels ◽  
Growth Allocation ◽  
Leaf Chlorophyll ◽  
Growth And Allocation

AbstractSexual dimorphism in plant growth and/or reproductive responses to the surrounding environment has been documented in some plant species. In gynodioecious plants, it is especially important to understand whether females and hermaphrodites differ in their response to environmental stressors, as the fitness of females relative to hermaphrodites determines the extent to which these separate sexes are maintained in natural populations. Soil nutrient availability is of particular importance given the different nutrient requirements of male and female sexual functions in plants. Here, we evaluated and compared the growth of females and hermaphrodites of Geranium maculatum in response to varying levels of nutrients. Using a greenhouse experiment, we manipulated the overall nutrient, nitrogen, and phosphorus levels in the soil and measured growth, allocation, and leaf quality responses in both females and hermaphrodites. We found that sexes responded similarly in their growth and allocation responses to nutrient availability, albeit evidence that female leaf chlorophyll content may have increased more than that of hermaphrodites across soil nitrogen levels. Our findings demonstrate that hermaphrodites differ from females in terms of their physiological response to varying nutrient levels, however these physiological differences did not translate into meaningful growth or reproduction differences.

scholarly journals How silicon fertilizer improves nitrogen and phosphorus nutrient availability in paddy soil?

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 521-532
Author(s):  
Yuqi Liang ◽  
Min Liao ◽  
Zhiping Fang ◽  
Jiawen Guo ◽  
Xiaomei Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Paddy Soil ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Silicon Fertilizer

The elemental and biochemical composition of bryophytes from the maritime Antarctic

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin C. Davey
Keyword(s):  
Short Duration ◽  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Biochemical Composition ◽  
Seasonal Patterns ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Maritime Antarctic ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Protein Nitrogen ◽  
Moss Species ◽  
Antarctic Mosses

The elemental and biochemical composition of eight moss species from the maritime Antarctic were determined fornightly (summer) or monthly (winter) from December 1992 to November 1994. Short-duration summer carbohydrate maxima in Calliergon sarmentosum were seen in both years, but no other seasonal patterns were observed. The absence of seasonality in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations or their atomic ratios suggest that the mosses were nutrient-sufficient throughout the year, and that nutrient availability was not important in determining moss productivity. Mosses from hydric habitats had lower carbohydrate and higher protein, nitrogen and phosphorus contents than those from drier habitats, possibly as a consequence of higher productivity and continual flushing with nutrients in wet habitats. The results are consistent with the importance of water and the primacy of physical factors in the ecology of Antarctic mosses.

scholarly journals Controls on Nutrient Cycling in Estuarine Mangrove Lake Sediments

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 626
Author(s):  
Michael S. Owens ◽  
Stephen P. Kelly ◽  
Thomas A. Frankovich ◽  
David T. Rudnick ◽  
James W. Fourqurean ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Uptake ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Aquatic Macrophyte ◽  
Soluble Reactive Phosphorus ◽  
Florida Bay ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Phosphorus Species ◽  
Gross Photosynthesis ◽  
Sediment Respiration ◽  
Reactive Phosphorus

We estimated the net exchange of nitrogen and phosphorus species using core incubations under light and dark conditions in estuarine lakes that are the aquatic interface between the freshwater Everglades and marine Florida Bay. These lakes and adjacent shallow water Florida Bay environments are sites where the restoration of hydrological flows will likely have the largest impact on salinity. Sediment respiration, measured by oxygen uptake, averaged (±S.D.) −2400 ± 1300, −300 ± 1000, and 1900 ± 1400 μmol m−2 h−1 for dark incubations, light incubations, and gross photosynthesis estimates, respectively, with dark incubations consistent with oxygen uptake measured by microelectrode profiles. Although most fluxes of soluble reactive phosphorus, nitrate, and N2–N were low under both light and dark incubation conditions, we observed a number of very high efflux events of NH4+ during dark incubations. A significant decrease in NH4+flux was observed in the light. The largest differences between light and dark effluxes of NH4+ occurred in lakes during periods of low coverage of the aquatic macrophyte Chara hornemannii Wallman, with NH4+ effluxes > 200 μmol m−2 h−1. Increasing freshwater flow from the Everglades is expected to expand lower salinity environments suitable for Chara, and therefore, diminish the sediment NH4+ effluxes that may fuel algal blooms.

scholarly journals Effects of Nutrient Availability on the Release of Dissolved and Particulate Organic Carbon by Pyropia haitanensis and Its Implications

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ningning Xu ◽  
Wenlei Wang ◽  
Yan Xu ◽  
Dehua Ji ◽  
Changsheng Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Particulate Organic Carbon ◽  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Pyropia Haitanensis ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Natural Seawater ◽  
Release Rates ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Marine Aquaculture ◽  
Elemental Stoichiometry

As an important component of the coastal-offshore ecosystem, Pyropia haitanensis aquaculture is continually being challenged due to rapid environmental changes because of global climate change and anthropogenic pressures. To explore the effect of nutrient availability on carbon metabolism by P. haitanensis, two strains of thalli were incubated for 15 days under four different concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus. Significant increases in carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus contents were observed in the algal tissue after the nitrates and phosphates enrichment, leading to elemental stoichiometry gradually approaching the Redfield ratio. Our results also showed a positive correlation between carbon or phosphorous accumulation and growth rate. Furthermore, under the natural seawater conditions, the release rates of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) were highest, and more DOC was released than POC. The release rates tended to decrease with nutrient enrichment. The average proportions of DOC compared to total carbon were 6.3%–25.7%, while the average proportions of POC compared to total carbon were 2.1%–5.4%. Our results support the proposed importance of P. haitanensis in contributing the DOC and POC that play a significant role in the biological carbon pump and in sustaining marine aquaculture ecosystems in eutrophic environments.

scholarly journals Nutrient resorption tightens plant nitrogen and phosphorus coupling and decreases with sulfur deposition as mediated by interannual precipitation in a meadow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Feng ◽  
Ruzhen Wang ◽  
Tianpeng Li ◽  
Jiangping Cai ◽  
Heyong Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Availability ◽  
Soil Acidification ◽  
Soil Nutrient ◽  
Nutrient Resorption ◽  
Mean Annual Precipitation ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Nutrient Mobilization ◽  
Soil Nutrient Availability ◽  
Green Leaves ◽  
S Deposition

Abstract Purpose Sulfur (S) deposition as a global change issue causes worldwide soil acidification, nutrient mobilization and marked changes in plant nutrition. Here, we investigated how S deposition would affect leaf nutrient resorption and how this effect varies with yearly fluctuations in precipitation. Methods In a semiarid meadow exposed to S addition, we measured nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and S concentrations in green and senescent leaves of a grass and a sedge and calculated nutrient resorption efficiencies (NuRE) across two years with contrasting precipitation (13% higher and 27% lower than long-term mean annual precipitation). Results Concentrations of N, P, and S in green and senescent leaves generally increased with S addition across the two years, with the exception of N and P concentrations in green leaves of the grass that showed no response or even decreased with S addition. The coupling relationships between N and P concentrations showed interannual variations and tightened by nutrient resorption, as evidenced by stronger N and P correlations in senescent leaves than in green leaves in the wet year. Leaf NuRE convergently decreased with S addition across the two years congruent with soil acidification and increased soil N, P and S availability, while NuRE was higher in the wet year due to lower soil nutrient availability herein. Conclusions This study provides new evidence on the role of nutrient resorption in tightening stoichiometric N:P relationships, and a three-dimensional feedback framework that plant nutrient resorption was favored by higher precipitation to sharpen its tradeoff with soil nutrient availability.

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