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2024
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Sylwia Wierzcholska Patryk Czortek Amy Elizabeth Eycott Fride Høistad Schei John-Arvid Grytnes Bogdan JaroszewiczAbstract
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Qiang Liu Haoyu Zhang Haozhen Wang Shenggeng Zhao Yeqing Li Lu Feng Junting Pan Hongjun Zhou Chunming XuAbstract
Anaerobic digestion (AD), as a crucial technology for organic waste resource recovery, faces the challenge of low efficiency in converting high-load organic substance into biogas. In this study, high-load AD system with food waste and excess sludge as co-substrates was constructed. The effect and mechanism of carbon quantum dots (CQD) derived from straw in promoting the performance of AD systems have been studied. The oxidation pretreatment of straw with H2O2 and acetic acid increased the yield of hydrothermal synthesis CQD to approximately 40%. The effect of different CQD on CH4 yield performance was further explored. The cumulative CH4 yield performance of the fermenter was improved after adding CQD. The CQD synthesized from pretreated straw and the nitrogen-doped CQD synthesized using Chlorella as the nitrogen source showed competitive promotion performance, increasing cumulative CH4 yield by 17.71% and 8.87%, respectively. These CQD can effectively accelerate the degradation of dissolved organic matter and thus improve the CH4 yield performance, with the most significant effect of CQD synthesized from pretreated straw. Electrochemical analysis and the correlation analysis between microorganisms and performance parameters showed that these CQD established an electron conductive network to enhance the electron transfer of the system. This well conductive conditions enriched hydrogenotrophic methanogenic (Methanosarcina), electroactive bacteria (Clostridium_sensu_stricto_1), and hydrolytic-acidifying bacteria (norank_f__Bacteroidetes_vadinHA17). This study significantly enhanced the yield of straw-derived CQD through green methods, and deeply revealed the potential promoting mechanisms of biomass-derived CQD by investigating the correlation between system performance and microorganisms in high-load AD systems.
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Simeon Rossmann Erik Lysøe Monica Skogen Håvard Eikemo Marta Janiszewska Mirella Ludwiczewska Sylwester Sobkowiak Jadwiga Śliwka May Bente BrurbergAbstract
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Ulrike BayrAbstract
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Sigridur Dalmannsdottir Marit Jørgensen Helga Amdahl Kristoffer Herland Hellton Odd Arne RognliAbstract
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Lucas Marie-Orleach Sylvain Glémin Marie Kristine Brandrud Anne Krag Brysting Lovisa Gustafsson Abel Gizaw Seid Loren Rieseberg Christian Brochmann Siri BirkelandAbstract
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Eivind Handegard Ivar Gjerde Rune Halvorsen Robert John Lewis Ken Olaf Storaunet Magne Sætersdal Olav SkarpaasAbstract
Multiple ecological drivers, along with forest age, determine the species composition of boreal forest ecosystems. However, the role of age in successional changes in forests cannot be understood without taking site conditions, the disturbance regime and forest structure into account. In this study, we ask two research questions: 1. What is the relationship between forest age and overall species composition in older near-natural spruce forests, i.e. forests of age beyond harvest maturity? 2. Do species associated with different forest habitats respond similarly to variation in forest age? Data were collected in 257 Norway spruce dominated 0.25 ha plots from three study areas in Southeastern and Central Norway. Species inventories were conducted for lichens and bryophytes on trees and rocks, vascular plants on the forest floor, and for deadwood-associated bryophytes and polypore fungi. Although NMDS ordination analyses of the total species composition identified a main axis related to the age of the oldest trees in two of the study areas, variation partitioning analyses showed that age explained a small fraction of variation of the species composition compared to site conditions, logging history, forest structure, and differences between the sites in all habitats. The unique variation explained by forest age species was, however, significant for all habitats. The fraction of variation in species composition explained by forest age was the largest for lichens and bryophytes on trees, and for deadwood-associated bryophytes and polypore fungi. Our results suggest that practical mapping of near-natural forests for management purposes inventories should include site conditions, forest structure and between site differences in addition to forest age.