Coupled nitrification-denitrification plays a critical role in the removal of excess nitrogen,which is chiefly caused by humans,to mitigate estuary and coastal eutrophication.Despite its obvious impor
Iron is an important limiting factor for global primary production due to its low bioavailability in aqueous oxygenic environments.In natural water ecosystems,soluble iron is mainly complexed with org
Urea is usually the most abundant single chemical species of dissolved organic nitrogen,contributing 50 %or more to the total N requirement of the aquatic primary producer communities in many coastal
Due to large rivers (e.g.the Pearl and Yangtze Rivers) input,Chinese coastal waters is significant eutrophicated,which may make phytoplankton community as well as ecosystems shift.To study the phytopl
Scientific diving has its beginning during the 1920s when shallow-water helmets were developed and first used by researchers in the Florida Keys,most famously by W.Longley.This was followed later by s
The early life stages of fishes are the most sensitive to environmental stressors.Adverse effects during embryonic development influence development,growth,survival and ultimately recruitment to the p
Growing evidence indicates that there is now an emerging link between pollution and cardiac disease,while the mechanism is unclear.Recent researches indicated that exposure to low dose crude oil durin
The coral calcification and metabolism at different life stages (larval,juvenile and adult coral,Pocillopora damicornis) were investigated to study their responses to ocean acidification.Our results s