Huixian Wu 吴惠仙

Huixian Wu 吴惠仙
Shanghai Ocean University | SHOU · College of Fisheries and Life Science

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Due to the building of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Project, the study of the changing characteristics of intertidal sediments and their interaction with benthic species along the north shore of Hangzhou Bay is vital. In this study, Macrophthalmus abbreviatus and Macrophthalmus banzai were selected to compare the significance of differences...
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As one of the biggest ports, the aquatic ecology of Shanghai Port has a significant impact on the health of surrounding residents and aquatic animals. Therefore, this study explored the composition and distribution of bacteria, pathogens, and ARGs at Shanghai Ports by high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that the bacterial community was d...
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Ballast water (BW) poses the risk of introducing species. Therefore, ships install the ballast water management system (BWMS) to reduce the risks caused by BW. To gain a deeper understanding of the treatment effectiveness of the BWMS, in this study we compared the effectiveness of four different treatment processes of BWMSs on seawater phytoplankto...
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Chthamalus challengeri Hoek, 1883 (Crustacea, Cirripedia) is typically found in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea along the coast of China. However, until 2009, it was never seen in the East China Sea. In 2010, C. challengeri was discovered at Yangshan Port in Zhoushan, East China Sea, and it has since been found to invade several islands in the Zhousha...
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The intertidal zone of the Yangtze River estuary is highly heterogeneous and suitable for crabs of various feeding habits. The ability of decapod crabs to occupy various ecological niches is closely related to the structure of their oral appendages during the feeding process. In this study, we investigated the morphological and structural character...
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Ballast water (BW) is a well-known transporter for introducing non-indigenous aquatic organisms. To reduce such risks associated with BW discharge, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention). We examined the abundance and di...
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The transfer of ship ballast water poses significant risks to the aquatic ecosystem and human health. To mitigate the influences of non-native species, ballast water management systems (BWMS) have been installed on international ships to ensure proper treatment of ballast water before discharge. This study investigates whether ballast water dischar...
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The foreign dinoflagellate cysts in ships’ ballast water tank sediments (BWTS) can be viable for a long time under hostile storage conditions. It is crucial to understand the detailed mechanisms of harmful biological invasions in estuary ecosystems. To study the relationship between the abundance of dinoflagellate cysts and environmental factors, c...
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In recent years, the issue of invasive alien species brought on by ballast water has drawn increasing attention, and advances in ballast water treatment technologies have been made. One of the most popular combined ballast water treatment technologies utilized in ballast water management systems (BWMSs) globally is filtration + UV-C radiation. Duri...
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Effects of the membrane separation + N2 deoxidation process on the abundance and activity of bacteria were examined under two salinity conditions at Yangshan Port, Shanghai, China. Sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons demonstrated a decrease in the diversity and activity of bacteria in fresh water and marine water, with a total removal rate of app...
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Water pollution with trace metal(loid)s (TMs) caused by anthropogenic activities is of great concern, especially in industrial areas. TM concentrations in surface water of industrial areas along the Huangpu River (HR) and Yangtze River Estuary (YRE) in Shanghai, China were investigated. The rankings of average TM concentrations in the HR and YRE we...
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The spatial distribution, sources, and potential risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were systematically investigated in Shanghai port, one of the most important hubs in international trade. The 16 priority PAHs in surface water and sediment were determined. Total concentrations of 16 PAHs (Σ16PAHs) ranged from 140.6 to 647.4 ng/L in su...
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Heavy metal concentrations in surface waters and sediments of Shanghai port were measured to analyze the spatial distribution characteristics, sources and pollution degrees. The southern Shanghai port was heavily polluted by Cd, Pb, Cr and Cu in water, and the concentrations of Pb, Hg and Zn in sediments exceeded Effects Range Low. Cu, Pb, Cd and C...
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The introduction of bloom forming species through discharge of ships' ballast water is recognized as a global challenge to marine ecosystem. Harmful algal bloom species in ballast water is of special concern. This study examines the abundance and diversity of bloom forming species in ballast water from 44 samples collected in 2015–2016 from 40 comm...
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Halogenated disinfection by-products (DBPs) from ballast water treatment have attracted more attention owing to their potential threats to marine ecosystems. Chlorination is widely used in ballast water treatment, in which...
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Biological invasions and loss of biodiversity are serious problems of increasing globalization. The hypothesis that resting eggs in ballast sediments from transoceanic ships provide an invasion of nonindigenous species was tested by directly comparing egg communities between ballast and natural sediment. The richness, abundance and taxonomic compos...
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We employed a mesoscale experimental system and enriched natural plankton communities to investigate the efficacy of a type of ballast-water management system (BWMS) that uses a combination of filtration and electro-catalysis as the treatment technology. The water samples were collected immediately after treatment and at discharge to measure the bi...
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Ballast water is a major vector of invasion by protozoans and metazoans. Bacterial invasion is less-well understood. We surveyed the bacterial diversity of ballast water from 26 container ships arriving at the Yangshan Deepwater Port, Shanghai, China during 2015–2016. We characterized the ballast microbiome using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) ba...
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Ballast water is a common vector for the transport of invasive species to new marine and aquatic environments. We used a metagenomics approach to examine the diversity and composition of potential pathogens communities in ballast water from ships in the route of China- Southeast Asia (CSEA). 16 kinds of potential pathogenic genus were detected in t...
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Previous studies have found differences between communities of benthic macroinvertebrates living in constructed tidal flats compared with natural ones. We analyzed the distributional characteristics of benthic macroinvertebrates in a blowing sand reclamation area (Area A), a dike-building silting area (Area B), an out-of-siltation area (Area C), an...
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Phytoplankton diversity and abundance were determined in ballast water from 26 vessels in the Shanghai Yangshan Deep-Water Port from April 2015 to January 2016. In total, 84 species of phytoplankton were identified, belonging to 43 genera and 5 phyla. Bacillariophyta (75.0%, including 30 genera and 63 species) were the dominant algae in the ballast...
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Species introduction through the release of ballast water has become one of the four major threats to marine biodiversity and ecosystem function worldwide. China is one of the top trading countries, yet little is known about exotic species in the ballast water of ships coming to her ports. Here we review the biological surveys of ballast water in m...
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The presence of disinfection by-products (DBPs) releasing from ballast water management systems (BWMS) can cause a possible adverse effects on humans. The objectives of this study were to compute the Derived No Effect Levels (DNELs) for different exposure scenarios and to compare these levels with the exposure levels from the measured DBPs in treat...
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Invasive species generally possess unique characteristics that allow them to survive the invasion process in order to establish and spread in new habitats. Successful invaders must resist both physical and physiological stresses associated with the changing environment. A common littoral barnacle, Chthamalus challengeri Hoek, 1883 (Crustacea, Cirri...
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Silica/polydopamine/silver (SiO2/PD/Ag) nanoparticles (NPs) with a core??shell??satellite structure were fabricated and the mechanisms of their antibacterial activity were investigated. In this reported work, the results of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) assays, the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage assays and a cell morphology observation conf...
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This study expands on recent reports that direct development in the Chinese potamid freshwater crab Sinopotamon yangtsekiense involves the completion of all brachyuran larval stages (nauplius, zoea, and megalopa) inside the egg case during embryonic development. Detailed studies of embryonic development in this species revealed the presence of an a...
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The true freshwater crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) are highly adapted to life in freshwater and complete their life cycle entirely independently of sea water. All true freshwater crabs exhibit direct development and lack the free-living larval forms (zoea and megalopa) typical of most other brachyurans. After a prolonged embryonic period (d...
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The tadpole shrimp, Triops sinensis, was discovered in the paddy fields of the Shouchang River watershed. The gut contents of the shrimp from these field populations were analyzed in order to quantify their dietary patterns. Some species of tadpole shrimps were found to prey on mosquito larvae as well as uproot weeds. Mosquito larvae and weeds were...

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