Association of biodiversity with the rates of micropollutant biotransformations among full-scale wastewater treatment plant communities.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversities can differ substantially among different wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) communities. Whether differences in biodiversity translate into differences in the provision of particular ecosystem services, however, is under active debate. Theoretical considerations predict that WWTP communities with more biodiversity are more likely to contain strains that have positive effects on the rates of particular ecosystem functions, thus resulting in positive associations between those two variables. However, if WWTP communities were sufficiently biodiverse to nearly saturate the set of possible positive effects, then positive associations would not occur between biodiversity and the rates of particular ecosystem functions. To test these expectations, we measured the taxonomic biodivers

SUBMITTER: Johnson DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4277575 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature