Radium and nitrogen isotopes tracing fluxes and sources of submarine groundwater discharge driven nitrate in an urbanized coastal area

X Wang, Y Zhang, M Luo, K Xiao, Q Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The quantitative evaluations of nutrients delivered by submarine groundwater discharge
(SGD) have been widely conducted worldwide, but sources of nutrients in the discharged …

Increased nitrogen loading facilitates nitrous oxide production through fungal and chemodenitrification in estuarine and coastal sediments

X Li, D Gao, Y Li, Y Zheng, H Dong… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Estuarine and coastal environments are assumed to contribute to nitrous oxide (N2O)
emissions under increasing nitrogen loading. However, isotopic and molecular mechanisms …

Nitrous oxide emissions from subtropical estuaries: Insights for environmental controls and implications

X Li, M Qi, D Gao, M Liu, J Sardans, J Peñuelas, L Hou - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Estuaries are expected to contribute large nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions, however the
environmental controls and implications of N 2 O emissions have not been well understood …

Investigating the link between Pearl River-induced eutrophication and hypoxia in Hong Kong shallow coastal waters

N Geeraert, A Archana, MN Xu, SJ Kao… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present geochemical analysis of 75 surface water samples collected in 2016 in Hong
Kong coastal waters. We found that nitrogen distribution around Hong Kong can be …

Human activity intensity controls the relative importance of denitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation across subtropical estuaries

X Li, W Qian, L Hou, M Liu, Z Chen, C Tong - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Human activities are dramatically increasing estuarine nitrogen (N) loads, further altering N
processes. However, relative importance of denitrification and anaerobic ammonium …

Nitrogen loads alter the N2 production between denitrification and anammox in Min River Estuary, a highly impacted estuary in southeast China

X Li, D Gao, L Hou, W Qian, M Liu, H Zeng, Z Chen… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Estuarine sediment denitrification and anammox in response to increased nitrogen (N) loads
remain poorly understood. In this study, we used N isotope tracer approach to investigate …

Land‐Use Intensity Increases Benthic N2O Emissions Across Three Sub‐Tropical Estuaries

JJ Chen, NS Wells, DV Erler… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Estuaries play an important role in regulating nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes to the atmosphere,
but little is known about how catchment land‐use changes influence benthic N2O cycling …

Abiotic reduction of nitrate to ammonium by iron (oxy)(hydr) oxides and its stable isotope (δ15N, δ18O) dynamics

X Wang, NS Wells, W Xiao, JL Hamilton… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the kinetics and stable isotopic fractionation of nitrate (NO 3−) reduction in Fe
(II)/Fe (III) homogeneous/heterogeneous systems were investigated at circumneutral pH (ie …

Nitrogen isotope constraint on the zonation of multiple transformations between dissolved and particulate organic nitrogen in the Changjiang plume

X Yan, JYT Yang, MN Xu, H Wang, M Dai… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on the sources and transformations of particulate organic N (PN) and
dissolved organic N (DON) at the coastal interface remains insufficient due to technological …

Changing sediment and surface water processes increase CH4 emissions from human-impacted estuaries

NS Wells, JJ Chen, DT Maher, P Huang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Coastal waters are known to emit globally significant quantities of CH 4, a potent
greenhouse gas, but the potential of the rapid and ongoing human alterations to coastal …