Phosphorus fuels Cladophora growth and self‑reinforcing adhesion via extracellular polysaccharides on hard substrata

Authors
Affiliations

Yifan Du

Siguang Yuan

China South to North Water Diversion Middle Route Corporation Limited

School of Civil Engineering, Chang’an University

Siming Jiao

Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yufan Ai

Yingjie Li

Nan Li

China South to North Water Diversion Middle Route Corporation Limited

Xiaonan Chen

China South to North Water Diversion Middle Route Corporation Limited

Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Monitoring, Early Warning and Protection for Watershed Aquatic Ecology

Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Observation and Research Station of South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Line Project

Xiaoming Cai

Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xinzong Xiao

China South to North Water Diversion Middle Route Corporation Limited

Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Monitoring, Early Warning and Protection for Watershed Aquatic Ecology

Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Observation and Research Station of South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Line Project

Jilong Wang

Min Yang

Published

July 28, 2025

# These authors contributed equally to this work.

a Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
b China South to North Water Diversion Middle Route Corporation Limited, Beijing 100038, China.
c School of Civil Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China.
d Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
e Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Monitoring, Early Warning and Protection for Watershed Aquatic Ecology, Wuhan 430010, China.
f Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Observation and Research Station of South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Line Project, Beijing 100038, China.
g University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

* Corresponding to: Xinzong Xiao (xiaoxinzong@csnwd.com.cn), Ming Su (mingsu@rcees.ac.cn)

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Ming Su: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis, Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Visualization, Project administration, Funding acquisition. Yiping Zhu: Investigation, Resources, Project administration. Michael Burch: Writing - Review & Editing. Jinping Lu, Tengxin Cao, Yufan Ai: Investigation. Jianwei Yu: Resources. Min Yang: Conceptualization, Validation, Formal analysis, Writing - Review & Editing, Project administration, Resources, Funding acquisition, Supervision.