Publications by authors named "Xiao-Qi Tao"

Intensified urbanization has been occurring in the eastern region of China in recent decades, and excessive industrial and household sewage has been discharged into lakes and reservoirs, which has directly lowered water quality and destructed the functions of aquatic ecosystems. Lakes and reservoirs are typically drinking water sources supplying water for metropolitan areas as well as large- and medium-sized cities. Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is the colored fraction of DOM, and its source and optical composition strongly affect water supply safety and the health of surrounding citizens.

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In order to identify methane (CH) diffusion emissions characteristics and their impact factors in an eutrophic lake, CH flux across the lake-air interface was observed in Meiliang Bay and the central zone of Lake Taihu over one year. The relationships between CH flux and environmental factors and water quality indices were analyzed. The results indicated that the annual mean CH diffusion flux in the eutrophic zone was significantly higher than that in the central zone, which were 0.

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As an important part of inland waters,small pond is a neglected source of greenhouse gas.The main objective of the study was to quantify greenhouse gas fluxes (CO and CH) from small pond in the Yangtze Delta using flux-gradient method.The results showed that:① zero-gradient test indicated that the flux measurement precision for water vapor,CO,and CH was 7.

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The composition of hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes in lake water is important to the researches in hydrology, meteorology and paleoclimatology. In this study, long-term and continuous measurement on the compositions of HDO and HO in lake water (δD and δO) was conducted over Lake Taihu, the deuterium excess () was calculated, and the temporal variability and controlling factors were analyzed. The results indicated that ① the variation of isotopic enrichment in lake water was significant, ranging from -59.

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Lake surface albedo determines energy balance of water-atmospheric interface and water physical environment. Solar elevation angle, cloudiness, wind speed, water quality and other factors can affect lake surface albedo. Using solar radiation, wind speed, and water quality data (turbidity and chlorophyll-a concentration) which were observed in four eddy covariance sites (Meiliangwan, Dapukou, Bifenggang and Xiaoleishan i.

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To investigate the impact of elevated surface ozone (O3) concentration on nitrous oxide (N2O) emission from arid farmland, field experiments were carried out during winter-wheat and soybean growing seasons under the condition of simulating O3 concentrations, including free air (CK), 100 nL x L(-1) O3 concentration (T1), and 150 nL x L(-1) O3 concentration (T2). N2O emission fluxes were measured by static dark chamber-gas chromatograph method. The results showed that the accumulative amount of N2O (AAN) were decreased by 37.

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In order to study the effect of conservation tillage on soil CO2 and N2O emissions in the following crop-growing season, field experiments were conducted in the winter wheat-growing season. Four treatments were conventional tillage (T), no-tillage with no straw cover (NT), no-tillage with straw cover (NTS), and conventional tillage with straw incorporation (TS), respectively. The CO2 and N2O fluxes were measured using a static chamber-gas chromatograph technique.

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To gain insight into antiseptic effects on the concentrations of CO2, CH4, and N2O in lake water, antisepetic (CuSO4 and HgCl2) were added into water sample, and concentrations of greenhouse gases were measured by the gas chromatography based on water equilibrium method. Experiments were conducted as following: the control group without antisepetic (CK), the treatment group with 1 mL CuSO4 solution (T1), the treatment group with 5 mL CuSO4 solution (T2), and the treatment group with 0.5 mL HgCl2 solution (T3).

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Article Synopsis
  • The study investigated how experimental warming affects N2O emissions from soybean field soil using outdoor experiments with gas chromatography.
  • Results showed that warming significantly increased N2O flux and cumulative emissions by approximately 17.31% and 20.27%, respectively, compared to control conditions.
  • Additionally, diurnal warming improved crop biomass and nitrate reductase activity while shifting nitrogen dynamics in the plants and soil, indicating an overall impact on the greenhouse gas emissions from soybean fields.
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An ultra-performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometric detection (UPLC-MS/MS) method was developed for the detection of flunixin residues in rabbit tissues. The samples were extracted with acidic acetonitrile, defatted with n-hexane, and then purified by HLB solid-phase extraction cartridge. Analysis was carried out on UPLC-ESI-MS/MS working with multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode.

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The prevalence of β-lactamase, 16S rRNA methylase genes, and plasmid-mediated fluoroquinolone-resistance (PMQR) determinants (qnrC and qnrD) was determined by polymerase chain reaction in fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from a chicken farm, a pig farm, and a hospital in Shandong, China in 2007. The bla(TEM) and bla(CTX-M) were the most prevalent β-lactamase genes in isolates from chickens (88.4%, 175/198 and 81.

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Bacterial resistance to fluoroquinolones result from mutations in the quinolone resistance-determining regions of the drug targets, overexpression of efflux pumps, and/or the more recently identified plasmid-mediated low-level resistance mechanisms. We investigated the prevalence of and characterized plasmid-mediated fluoroquinolone resistance genes (qnrA, qnrB, qnrS, aac(6')-Ib-cr, and qepA) by polymerase chain reaction in fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli (n = 530) isolated from a chicken farm, a pig farm, and hospitalized patients in Shandong, China, in 2007. The aac(6')-Ib-cr gene was the most prevalent resistance gene that was detected in bacteria isolated from all sources.

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