Xiuming Sun

• PhD
• Florida State University

Water quality and scarcity are among the most severe problems humans have been facing in the last decades. India, as a fast-developing country, is not an exception. The surface water quality has deteriorated due to anthropogenic activities. Another factor which impacts the water quality is the heavy rainfall during monsoon season. To maintain the q...

The transport of nutrients into water bodies is one of the main causes of water eutrophication. It is therefore important to estimate the loads of nutrients. Discharge and nutrient concentrations are the fundamental elements to estimate the loads of nutrients, the latter can be affected by sampling strategies. As conducting sampling campaign and la...

A sound understanding of the community changes over time and its driving forces is at the centre of biodiversity conservation and ecology research. In this study, we examined: (i) the relative roles of turnover and nestedness components to trait‐ and taxonomy‐based temporal beta diversity of riverine diatoms; (ii) whether trait‐based temporal beta...

With the growing demand of assessing the ecological status, there is the need to fully understand the relationship between the planktic diversity and the environmental factors. Species richness and Shannon index have been widely used to describe the biodiversity of a community. Besides, we introduced the first ordination value from non-metric multi...

Temporal dynamics of diatom community with relation to abiotic factors is an important part of water quality monitoring and water resource management. However, the contribution of hydrological variables to temporal diatom variation has been rarely reported, especially at a short-interval sampling scale. Based on daily riverine diatom samples over a...

There has been increasing interest in diatom-based bio-assessment but we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how to capture diatoms’ temporal dynamics with an appropriate sampling frequency (ASF). To cover this research gap, we collected and analyzed daily riverine diatom samples over a 1-year period (25 April 2013–30 April 2014) at the out...

There has been increasing interest in diatom based bio-assessment but up to now we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how to capture their temporal dynamics with an appropriate sampling frequency (ASF). To cover this research gap, the daily dynamics of diatom community were collected and analyzed over a 1-year period (25 April 2013 -30 Apr...