Soil microbial diversity and spatiality across peatland vegetation mosaics under restoration in the southern Pennines, UK

Impacts of degraded blanket bog restoration on culturable and non-culturable soil bacterial and fungal biodiversity and spatiality were assessed. Peat sampled from unvegetated peat areas and from 3 restored vegetation classes, remnant vegetation and grass dominated gullies were subjected to culturable microbial enumeration and rDNA based community profiling and pyrosequencing. …

Impacts of peatland restoration on the identity and distribution of soil microbial communities in vegetation mosaics

Diversity and functioning of soil microbial drivers in peatland ecosystems remain poorly investigated. We report on culture-dependent and -independent characterisation of soil bacterial and fungal communities and primary geospatial relationships identified in bare peat and vegetation mosaics that have resulted from active restoration of degraded peatland in the southern Pennines.

Long-term partial nitrification in an intermittently aerated sequencing batch reactor (SBR) treating ammonium-rich wastewater under controlled oxygen-limited conditions

Highlights Development of a novel technology for partial nitrification at ambient temperature. First time to use online NH4-–N measurement as a control parameter for bioreactors. RT-PCR analysis shows the population size of AOB was up to 10% of total bacteria. Intermittent aeration and oxygen-limited conditions sustained partial nitrification. The bioreactor …