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Effect of aquatic macrophyte growth on landscape water quality improvement

Environmental Science and Pollution Research volume 26, pages 33791–33803 (2019)Cite this article

Abstract

The water of urban landscape park is often confronted with microalgal blooms due to its stagnancy. Bioremediation using the combined emergent and submerged plants to control the microalgae growth was investigated in the present study. Two water bodies (Bei and Xin) of Yuyuantan Park in Beijing were selected for the field experiments, and the other lakes with different vegetation of macrophytes were selected as the comparison. The concentrations of chlorophyll a (chl a), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP), and water temperature and transparency were monitored before and after bioremediation from 2015 to 2017. Results showed that the effects of microalgal inhibition were more significant 2 years after bioremediation. Specifically, the chl a of Dong Lake without any vegetation of macrophytes was up to 65.1 μg/L in summer of 2017, while the Bei and Xin Lakes was only 6.2 and 11.3 μg/L, respectively. In addition, the water quality and transparency also improved, with water bodies being crystal clear. Submerged plants played major roles in microalgal control and water quality improvement, compared to the lakes with only emergent plants. The intensity of humic acid-like substances in three-dimensional fluorescent spectra was stronger for the lakes with submerged plants.

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This work is financially supported by the Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment (2018ZX07105-001, 2018ZX07110-004), Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (51672028), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2015ZCQ-HJ-02).

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  1. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing Forestry University, 35# Qinghua East Rd., Haidian District, Beijing, China

    Hengfeng Zhang, Yixi Zhao, Yuanyuan Wang, Huixian Li, Wenyan Liang & Hongjie Wang

  2. School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

    Hang Yin

  3. Yuyuantan Park Management Department of Beijing, Beijing, China

    Zhanshen Wang & Yongbo Geng

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Zhang, H., Zhao, Y., Yin, H. et al. Effect of aquatic macrophyte growth on landscape water quality improvement. Environ Sci Pollut Res 26, 33791–33803 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2421-4

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Keywords

  • Microalgae bloom
  • Urban park
  • Landscape water
  • Submerged plant
  • Bioremediation
  • Macrophyte