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Experimental Study on the Effect of the Physicochemical Properties of Contaminated Fillers in Bioretention System on Microbial Community Structure

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Six bioretention filter columns were designed to study the effects of the bioretention system on surface runoff reduction through rainfall simulation water distribution experiments, and the relationship between the physicochemical properties of contaminated fillers and microbial community structure was analyzed. Results show that (1) the water volume and load reduction effect of traditional bioretention soil media (BSM) + 5% water treatment residue (WTR) was better than that of traditional bioretention soil media; (2) soil moisture content (SMC), carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, Cd, and Cu increased after the water distribution test, while the change of Zn in the filter columns varied; (3) species richness decreased after the experiment. In terms of microbial community structure, the top 10 dominant phyla did not change. At the genus level, Arthrobacter replaced Sphingomonas as the most abundant flora after the experiment; (4) the effects of the physicochemical properties of contaminated fillers on microbial community structure in terms of pH were not clear, but total organic carbon(TOC), total phosphorus(TP), and SMC greatly influenced the microbial community structure, while the influence of heavy metals on the relative abundance at the phylum and genus levels was not uniform.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully thank all the members of the research group on Non-Point Source Pollution Control and Sponge City of the State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China for their efforts in water quality test, and Dr. Zhang Z-X for his suggestions on the writing of the manuscript.

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The study is financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2019JM-347), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52070157).

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, 710048, China

    Zhaoxin Zhang & Jiake Li

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Li Yajiao, Li Jiake, Zhang Jingyu, and Zhang Zhaoxin contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Zhang Jingyu, Yang Yaou, Li Yajiao, and Li Jiake. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Li Yajiao and Yang Yaou. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Li, Y., Yang, Y., Zhang, J. et al. Experimental Study on the Effect of the Physicochemical Properties of Contaminated Fillers in Bioretention System on Microbial Community Structure. Water Air Soil Pollut 232, 298 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05213-0

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