Change of the structure and assembly of bacterial and photosynthetic communities by the ecological engineering practices in Dianchi Lake. (15th December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xie, Yucheng; Sheng, Yizhi; Li, Danni; He, Feng; Du, Jinsong; Jiang, Longfei; Luo, Chunling; Li, Guanghe; Zhang, Dayi
• Is Part Of: Environmental pollution. Volume 315(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-12-15
• Subjects: Cyanobacterial bloom -- Eutrophication -- Bacteria -- Photoautotrophs -- Dianchi lake; Pollution -- Periodicals; Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Environmental Pollution -- Periodicals; Pollution -- Périodiques; Pollution -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Périodiques; Pollution -- Effets physiologiques -- Périodiques; Pollution; Pollution -- Environmental aspects; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 363.73
• DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120386
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0269-7491

Abstract

Abstract: Cyanobacterial bloom challenges the aquatic ecosystem and ecological restoration is an effective approach for cyanobacterial bloom control, but the change of aquatic community after ecological restoration is still unclear. Dianchi Lake is an eutrophic lake with frequent cyanobacterial blooms in China, and recent ecological restoration projects in Caohai (north part) have a satisfactory performance. In this study, we collected 249 water samples at 23 sites from Dianchi Lake to explore the relationships between water physicochemical variables and aquatic microbial communities. Water physicochemical variables in Waihai (south part) intensively changed along time, whereas those in Caohai did not. Photoautotrophic communities were significantly divergent between Caohai and Waihai. Waihai had a lower diversity of photoautotrophic community, containing higher abundance of Cyanophyceae (89.9%) than Caohai (42.7%). Nutrient level and Cyanophyceae only exhibited strong correlations in Wahai ( p < 0.05). Redundancy analysis and microbial ecological network suggested that microbial communities in Caohai had a higher stability. Deterministic process dominated the microbial assembly (50–80% for bacteria and >90% for photoautotrophs), and particularly in Caohai. Our results unraveled that the structure and assembly of bacterial and photoautotrophic communities significantly changed after ecological restoration, offering valuable suggestions that photosynthetic diversity should be focused for other ecological restoration projects. Graphical abstract: Image 1 Highlights: Similar bacterial communities between Waihai and Caohai. Significant difference in photoautotrophs between Waihai and Caohai. More stochastic processes for microbial assembly in Waihai than Caohai. Higher microbial stability in Caohai after ecological restoration.