Disentangling effects of river inflow and marine diffusion in shaping the planktonic communities in a heavily polluted estuary

How habitat heterogeneity shapes bacterial and protistan communities in temperate coastal areas near estuaries

“…In addition, significantly higher concentrations of PHs and multiple heavy metals were detected in the LH coastal area compared to the YLJ area. This result was expected due to the developed onshore and offshore petrochemical industry in the LH coastal area, which will inevitably result in petroleum and heavy metal pollution (Sun et al ., 2020). Based on the above information, we inferred that both geographical segregation and anthropogenic activities can result in significant local environmental heterogeneity on a regional scale.…”

“…When the perspective is shifted from a global or continental scale to a specific regional area, differences in local community assembly mechanisms have been reported to be more important for the formation of site‐to‐site biogeographic patterns (Stegen et al ., 2013; Sun et al ., 2020; Zhou et al ., 2021). The most common microbial biogeographic pattern is the distance–decay of similarity (Nekola and White, 1999), which has been uncovered in multiple environments involving diverse microorganisms (Wang et al ., 2019; Lin et al ., 2021; Zhao et al ., 2021).…”

Seasonality shapes community structure and functional group dynamics of zooplankton in Changjiang River estuary and its adjacent waters

“…Contrasting to the offshore waters, high value of Chl-a was at the inlet (Figure 2). This could be explained by that river inflow promotes the growth of phytoplankton adapted to low salinity and high nutrient (Mukherjee et al, 2013;Sun et al, 2021), thus providing food for non-marine zooplankton (Groups 9 and 10). In addition, in winter-spring, the higher FEve (Figure 3 and Figure S3) pointed towards the complementarity of resources uses within zooplankton community as implied by the findings in Mamanguape Estuary (Veríssimo et al, 2017).…”

State Analysis of the Water Quality in Rivers in Consideration of Diffusion Phenomenon

“…Theoretical and experimental studies of diffusion in liquids are discussed by many authors in various scientific publications [8][9][10]. The paper [11] focuses on discussing the principles, applications and advances in diffusion, thermal diffusion and thermal conductivity in liquid systems.…”