“…The biological method (anaerobic denitrification) is widely used because of its features of low‐cost operability and environment‐friendly. But it was difficult to maintain the high nitrogen removal efficiency in the urban river without the strictly anaerobic conditions, owing to new denitrifiers (aerobic denitrifiers) and denitrifying mechanisms that have been discovered, which showed an entirely new approach to remove the excess nitrogen in the urban river (Hou, Cao, Song, & Zhou, 2013; Tang, Li, Xu, Huang, & Sun, 2017). Compared with anaerobic denitrifiers, aerobic denitrifiers have competitive advantages, such as rapid‐propagation, well‐tolerated and high‐efficient denitrification (Duan, Fang, Su, Chen, & Lin, 2015; Torre‐Velasco, Beristain‐Cardoso, Damian‐Matsumura, & Gómez, 2013).…”