Spatio-temporal shifts in community structure and activity of nirS-type denitrifiers in the sediment cores of Pearl River Estuary

• Haitao Xie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haitao Xie, Yiguo Hong

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China, The School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Yiguo Hong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haitao Xie, Yiguo Hong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yghong@gzhu.edu.cn (YH); liuhmimu@aliyun.com (HL)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6255-4100

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• Huamin Liu ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yghong@gzhu.edu.cn (YH); liuhmimu@aliyun.com (HL)

  Affiliation The School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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• Lijing Jiao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

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• Jiapeng Wu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

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• Lixin Wang

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation The School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

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