[B-GM22] 地球惑星科学と微生物生態学の接点

[BGM22-04] アナモックスの優占する活性汚泥における同位体分別

*古田島 翔徳¹、木庭 啓介¹、池田 大輔²、寺田 昭彦²、井坂 和一³ (1.東京農工大学大学院農学研究院、2.東京農工大学大学院工学研究院、3.日立製作所)

Anammox is considered to be an important nitrogen removal pathway in the ecosystem. However, it is still unknown how much the anammox can contribute to the total nitrogen loss in the ecosystem. Natural abundance of stable isotopes can be a promising tool to investigate the relative contribution of anammox and denitrification in the intact ecosystem, although the isotopic fractionation factors during anammox which are necessary to interpret isotopic signatures are not fully known. Here we reported nitrogen and oxygen isotopic fractionation factors during anammox occuring in the activated sludge. We incubated the sludge anaerobically to trace the changes in concentrations and isotopic signatures of ammonium, nitrite and nitrate during the anammox process. We found the large isotopic fractionations for ammonium oxidation and nitrite reduction by anammox. In addition, the inverse isotopic fractionation during nitrite oxidation to nitrate was observed. We will discuss these factors with comparison of the latest study on anammox isotopic systematics (Brunner et al. 2013) in the presentation.