Philippa Kaur

Land-use and land-cover changes have impacted many natural ecosystems to provide ecosystem goods and services for an ever-growing human population1. This often has unintended consequences that may threaten biodiversity and ecosystem health2. Such consequences include changes in local, regional, and global climate3, alteration of natural habitats4, pollution of land, air, and water5,6,7, and changes in […] More

Identification of bulking bacteria in the A2O process train using amplicon sequencing, and their correlation with SVI Quantities of putative bulking bacteria in the 12 sludge samples after amplicon sequencing are expressed here as relative abundances of each as a percentage of the total number of amplicons. Figure 1 lists the filamentous genera mentioned in the […] More

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1. Grill, G. et al. Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers. Nature 569, 215–221, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1111-9 (2019). 2. Poff, N. L. et al. The natural flow regime. Bioscience 47, 769–784, https://doi.org/10.2307/1313099 (1997). Article Google Scholar 3. Yang, D. et al. Distribution and movement of Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, on the spawning ground located below the Gezhouba Dam […] More

In March 2011, large amounts of radionuclides were released into the environment as a result of an accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP). Approximately 13–15 PBq of caesium-137 (hereinafter, 137Cs, physical half-life of 30 years) was released from the FDNPP accident1,2, and as a result, 137Cs became a major […] More

Oceanography and protist community composition In summer 2012, the Arctic Ocean experienced an unprecedented decline in sea ice, resulting in a record sea ice minimum5. It has previously been shown that profound sea ice melt in summer 2012 led to increases in the light conditions and nutrient supply, affecting the microbial community and increasing net […] More