Variations of morphology and photosynthetic performances of Ulva prolifera during the whole green tide blooming process in the Yellow Sea.

Since 2007, the world's largest macroalgal blooms have occurred along the coastal area of the Yellow Sea for 6 consecutive years. In 2012, shipboard surveying and satellite remote sensing were used to monitor the whole blooming process. The blooms originated in Rudong sea area of the South Yellow Sea where bloom patches were of dark green and filamentous thalli were the dominant morphology.

[Bioremediation of river water quality by consecutively adjustable submerged vegetation net].

A series of consecutively adjustable submerged vegetation nets were constructed in a polluted shallow river with a length of about 200 m and nearby the water resource protection area of Taihu Lake in East China, forming an aquatic vegetation consisted of submerged plant species Cabomba caroliniana, Vallisneria natans, Elodea nuttallii, Hydrilla verticillata, and Potamogeton crispus. The water quality indices including total nitrogen (TN), ammonium nitrogen (NH4(+)-N), nitrite nitrogen (NO2(-)-N), nitrate nitrogen (NO3(-)-N), total phosphorus (TP), and phosphate (PO4(3-)-P) were monitored, and the bioremediation effect of the vegetation nets was evaluated. After setting up the vegetation nets, the Secchi depth (SD) of the river changed from 0.

Biosorption of heavy metals onto nonliving Laminaria japonica.

In this paper, study of the biosorption of Cd(2+) and Pb(2+) by nonliving Laminaria japonica in a batch adsorption system is described. The content of acidic sites and the dissociation constant of carboxylic acid functional groups (metal-binding site) of L. japonica were experimentally determined by conductometric and potentiometric titrations and theoretically predicated by using monodentate and bidentate binding models.