多重环境压力下大屯海硅藻群落结构的长期变化

云南亚热带高原湖泊在过去几十年内面临着工业污染、富营养化、滩地围垦、极端干旱等多重环境压力的影响.本研究以大屯海为研究对象,结合沉积物硅藻、粒度、碳氮同位素以及年代序列等数据进行了多指标分析,重建并识别了大屯海近百年来生态环境变化的历史和硅藻群落变化的特征.结果表明： 近百年来硅藻群落组合出现了较大的转变,优势种由连接脆杆藻转变为极细微曲壳藻.结合多指标环境记录(如碳氮同位素)和现代监测记录,采用排序分析以及方差分解发现,工业污染和湖泊营养盐富集是大屯海硅藻群落结构长期变化的主要驱动因子.此外,沉积物粒度分析结果与气象数据显示,由于大屯海受到修建大坝以及多次干旱事件的影响,湖泊水动力与水体交换能力减弱,从而使沉积物硅藻群落结构也发生了相应的变化.     

星云湖硅藻群落响应近现代人类活动与气候变化的过程

随着人类活动的增强与全球气候变暖的持续,近年来云南湖泊的生态系统功能持续退化,而目前对云南湖泊生态系统的研究还主要集中于单一环境压力的生态效应。以星云湖为研究对象,通过沉积物记录与现代监测资料,识别在湖泊富营养化、气候变化以及人类强烈干扰下硅藻群落结构响应的过程,并甄别驱动群落变化的主要环境压力及其强度。结果显示随着湖泊生产力水平(如沉积物叶绿素a浓度)的增加,硅藻物种组成发生了明显的变化,主成分分析表明了水体富营养化是驱动群落变化的主要环境因子(r=-0.63,P0.001)。简约模型与方差分解的结果表明近200年来(钻孔长度38cm),湖泊营养水平和水动力是驱动星云湖硅藻群落变化的主要环境因子,分别解释了群落变化的18.8%和2.9%;而1951年以后,湖泊营养水平和温度分别解释了硅藻群落结构变化的31.4%和26.8%。研究结果表明了硅藻群落长期变化的主控因子是湖泊营养水平,而人类活动及气候变化等可以通过改变湖泊水动力及湖水温度来驱动硅藻群落的演替,同时抚仙湖-星云湖的连通性也对硅藻群落的演替产生了一定影响。     

浴仙湖沉积物记录的云南极端干旱事件与生态响应评价

为评价湖库生态环境对极端气候的响应特征, 以经历水位明显降低的云南浴仙湖为研究对象, 通过沉积物多指标分析并结合多变量统计方法, 识别了2009—2013年极端干旱事件驱动湖泊生态环境变化的模式。其中沉积物粒度显示近百年来湖泊水文条件总体稳定, 但在2011年左右粗颗粒物质和中值粒径增大, 同期沉积物元素、同位素记录表明水体营养水平没有明显变化。硅藻群落近百年来以湖泊底栖物种占绝对优势, 约2011年开始优势种属Fragilaria被Nitzschia、Navicula等河流水体中常见的物种所替代, 且硅藻多样性指标总体增加, 而指示水位变化的PCA主轴一解释了硅藻群落结构的主要变化(约55.8%)。总之, 极端干旱事件的发生与持续明显改变了湖泊生物群落结构与多样性特征, 已成为影响该气候敏感区水资源安全与生态环境功能的重要挑战之一。     

昆明小型城市湖泊叶绿素a浓度与硅藻群落的时空分布及主控因子

水体叶绿素a浓度(Chla)与硅藻群落特征是指示湖泊水质的常用生物指标。本研究于2017年3月—2019年12月调查了昆明市4个小型湖泊(云南师范大学校园内北潭、北湖、南湖、龙潭)的水体环境指标、Chla浓度和硅藻群落的季节变化。结果显示：4个湖泊水体总氮(TN)、总磷(TP)和Chla浓度均呈现明显的季节波动。其中，营养水平最高的南湖水体Chla含量显著高于其他3个湖泊，影响南湖Chla变化的主要因子是TN;而在其他3个水体中，水温的增加显著促进了Chla浓度的上升。水温和TN是4个湖泊水体Chla时空变化的主要驱动因子。北潭、南湖和龙潭的硅藻群落以浮游硅藻占优，水深最浅的北湖以底栖硅藻为主，表明水深影响了硅藻群落的浮游物种占比与优势属种。水深、TN、TP、透明度以及水温驱动了硅藻群落的时空变化，其中，水温是影响硅藻群落季节差异的主要因子，而TN和TP是导致同一季节湖泊间硅藻群落差异的主要因子。     

浅水湖泊表层沉积物记录的枝角类群落空间分布特征

浅水湖泊污染负荷能力较低,对环境变化敏感,过度开发会导致生态功能明显退化甚至发生稳态转变.本研究通过提取云南18个浅水湖泊的表层沉积物枝角类信息,识别枝角类群落的空间分布特征并甄别其群落构建的环境驱动因子.结果表明:表层沉积物枝角类群落的地理分布存在显著的空间差异,滇西北的枝角类群落以底栖物种占绝对优势,而随着营养水平的增加,滇东南湖泊枝角类优势物种由底栖型向浮游型转变.统计分析表明,海拔和水体总磷水平是驱动群落分布空间差异的关键环境因子,分别独立解释了枝角类群落变化的22.0%和7.7%,反映了海拔梯度及其指示的气候环境过程是控制枝角类群落空间分布的重要因子.同时枝角类群落随营养水平的变化出现差异性的结构特征,可能指示了流域开发、污染物输入、水生植被变化等人类活动扰动的综合影响.同时,海拔和总磷水平表现出显著的相互作用并解释了枝角类群落变化的26.3%,指示了云南地区的人类活动强度随着海拔梯度呈现显著的空间差异,并通过营养盐输入等过程调控了枝角类群落的结构特征.     

水文气候波动下云南太平水库硅藻群落演替的长期特征

在区域气候变暖的背景下,干旱事件引起的水位频繁波动以及流域开发导致的污染物输入均可以直接威胁水库的生态安全。本研究以云南省太平水库为对象,通过对沉积物的物理(粒度、烧失量)、化学(碳、氮元素)、生物(硅藻群落)等代用指标的分析,并结合监测数据和调查资料,重建了该水库1937—2018年的生态环境变化过程,并识别了硅藻群落的演替特征及其环境影响因子。粒度结果指示,太平水库在筑坝期间(1956—1984年)水动力逐渐增强,而后水动力条件持续减弱,与文献记录的水文调控历史基本一致。总氮、总碳和有机质含量较为一致地记录了水库建设期间水体营养水平的下降、水库建成后初级生产力和内源有机质的上升过程。硅藻群落呈现出“浮游种-底栖种-浮游种”交替占优的演化模式。驱动太平水库硅藻群落演替的主要环境因子为气候变化、水动力条件和营养水平。在气候长期变暖的背景下,严格控制外源营养输入并合理开展水文调控是维持水库水体生态健康和环境安全的重要前提。     

东太湖表层沉积物放线菌群落结构多样性及其空间异质性

采用基于16SrRNA基因变性梯度凝胶电泳(DGGE)方法,考察东太湖表层沉积物放线菌群落结构多样性及其空间分布特征.结果显示:东太湖表层沉积物中放线菌群落结构多样性较高,DGGE指纹图谱样品的平均条带数为21.5±2个,群落结构多样性(如Shannon-Wiener指数)在空间尺度上差异不明显;聚类分析表明放线菌群落结构空间分布特征表现为相邻采样位点群落结构较为相似,这可能与相邻位点沉积物理化性质类似有关.典型对应分析结果表明,东太湖表层沉积物中放线菌群落结构变化的主要影响因子为沉积物pH.     

抚仙湖和滇池硅藻生物多样性与生产力关系的时间格局

目前国内对生产力–生物多样性关系(productivity–diversity relationship,PDR)的研究主要集中于陆地生态系统和空间尺度,少量关于湖泊系统的研究也主要集中于现代调查,缺乏较长时间尺度上的模式探讨。本文应用沉积物色素记录重建了抚仙湖和滇池初级生产力变化历史,对硅藻群落的主成分分析(PCA)表明两个湖泊的初级生产力都是驱动硅藻群落变化的主要环境梯度。进一步分析硅藻群落α与β多样性响应湖泊生产力水平的模式,发现滇池硅藻群落表现为随着系统生产力的上升物种丰富度减少,β多样性降低,而抚仙湖呈现相反的变化模式。两个湖泊β多样性与生产力平均水平的关系均表现出与α多样性相似的特征,但在与生产力变化幅度的关系上,滇池表现出显著的负相关,而抚仙湖则没有显著的变化。滇池硅藻群落生产力随硅藻多样性的降低显著增加(R2=0.597,P0.01),而在抚仙湖无显著变化,表明了滇池群落多样性的维持对群落生产力的影响较弱,如与营养盐富集的促进作用相比。滇池明显的富营养化过程与强烈的人类扰动带来的环境异质性降低可能对群落多样性–生产力的关系产生了明显的控制作用。     

洱海蓝藻爆发的时空特征及影响因子

湖泊生态环境对区域气候变化和流域人类活动十分敏感。随着流域的持续开发,洱海作为云贵高原第二大淡水湖泊面临着严重的生态与环境问题,主要包括水质恶化和生态功能的衰退,其中蓝藻水华问题尤为突出。针对湖泊现代监测数据存在时间序列较短、连续监测记录缺乏、监测位点不完全一致等问题,应用沉积物记录开展色素等多指标分析和环境变化重建研究,并对洱海湖区南、中、北3个湖盆的沉积物记录进行对比分析,从而探讨洱海富营养化与蓝藻爆发的历史与变化特征,并识别藻类响应模式的空间异同。沉积物色素记录结果表明,洱海蓝藻生物量变化具有明显的时空差异性,呈现由南至北,先后增加、最后呈现蓝藻水华全湖性持续爆发的模式。进一步的简约模型方差分解结果表明气候变暖和营养盐富集是洱海蓝藻生物量变化的主要驱动因子,此外相对较浅的南部湖盆还受到水位波动、水动力减弱、水生植物演化的综合影响。因此,在气候变暖的背景下,控制水体营养盐输入、合理调控湖泊水位、提高水体透明度并恢复水生植物是控制洱海蓝藻水华爆发和进行生态恢复的重要措施。     

清潩河(许昌段)流域生物群落特征及其与环境因子的关系

以清潩河(许昌段)流域为研究对象,通过野外调查和室内测定,对水生植物、河岸带植物和大型底栖动物的群落特征、水体和表层沉积物的环境因子特征进行研究,分析清潩河流域内的生物多样性.结果表明: 流域内共有水生植物12种,河岸带植物66种,大型底栖动物10种.群落间环境因子变异较大,其中,水体的铵氮、总氮、总磷、表层沉积物的氧化还原电位、重金属镉、汞、锌的变异显著.典范对应分析表明: 水体理化性质如化学需氧量、温度、pH、溶解氧、总磷是影响水生植物的关键环境因子;水体氧化还原电位、pH和表层沉积物的镍、汞、有机质、铅、镉是影响河岸带植物分布的关键因子;表层沉积物的pH、温度、氧化还原电位、砷、铅、镍和水体温度是影响大型底栖动物的关键环境因子.清潩河(许昌段)流域水质污染严重,生物群落多样性低,沿河的污水处理及保护与恢复生物类群的工作迫在眉睫.     

Ecology and distribution of diatoms in Biscayne Bay,Florida (USA): Implications for bioassessment and paleoenvironmental studies

The spatial and temporal distribution of planktonic, sediment-associated and epiphytic diatoms among 58 sites in Biscayne Bay, Florida was examined in order to identify diatom taxa indicative of different salinity and water quality conditions, geographic locations and habitat types. Assessments were made in contrasting wet and dry seasons in order to develop robust assessment models for salinity and water quality for this region. We found that diatom assemblages differed between nearshore and offshore locations, especially during the wet season when salinity and nutrient gradients were steepest. In the dry season, habitat structure was primary determinant of diatom assemblage composition. Among a suite of physicochemical variables, water depth and sediment total phosphorus (STP) were most strongly associated with diatom assemblage composition in the dry season, while salinity and water total phosphorus (TP) were more important in the wet season. We used indicator species analysis (ISA) to identify taxa that were most abundant and frequent at nearshore and offshore locations, in planktonic, epiphytic and benthic habitats and in contrasting salinity and water quality regimes. Because surface water concentrations of salts, total phosphorus, nitrogen (TN) and organic carbon (TOC) are partly controlled by water management in this region, diatom-based models were produced to infer these variables in modern and retrospective assessments of management-driven changes. Weighted averaging (WA) and weighted averaging partial least squares (WA-PLS) regressions produced reliable estimates of salinity, TP, TN and TOC from diatoms (r² = 0.92, 0.77, 0.77 and 0.71, respectively). Because of their sensitivity to salinity, nutrient and TOC concentrations diatom assemblages should be useful in developing protective nutrient criteria for estuaries and coastal waters of Florida.     

DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES AS INDICATORS OF LAKE TROPHIC STATUS IN SOUTHEASTERN ONTARIO LAKES1

Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was used to explore the relationship between measured environmental variables and surficial diatom (Bacillariophyceae) assemblages in alkaline lakes from southeastern Ontario. Total nitrogen (TN), watershed area, alkalinity, and maximum depth each explain significant (P ≤ 0.05) directions of variance in the distribution of diatom taxa. TN was highly correlated to total phosphorus (TP) (r = 0.92), chlorophyll a (r = 0.86), and Secchi depth (r =0.77). When a series of CCAs were run with the first axis constrained to each of these variables in turn, the ratio of the eigenvalue of the first axis to that of the second axis (λ1/λ2) was highest for TN, indicating that TN best explained the distribution of the diatom assemblages in this set of lakes. Furthermore, results of Monte Carlo permutation tests indicated that these four variables did not act independently on the diatom assemblages. Therefore, TN was selected to represent these four closely related variables to infer lake trophic status. Weighted-averaging regression and calibration (with classical deshrinking) were used to develop transfer functions to infer TN from the relative abundances of 83 diatom taxa recovered from the surficial sediments of 51 lakes. There was a good correlation between diatom-inferred TN concentrations and measured TN concentrations (r²= 0.75, n = 51). The weighted-averaging regression and calibration model was used to infer lake trophic status (represented by TN) from diatom assemblages presented in the sediments from Little Round Lake, Ontario. These data were used in conjunction with historical land-use data in order to quantify the sequence and extent of nutrient enrichment related to human activity in the watershed area.     

Diatoms as indicators: The influences of experimental nitrogen enrichment on diatom assemblages in sub-Arctic streams

Indices using diatoms are widely used to assess water quality, but are usually constructed from field correlations and not tested through rigorous experimentation. We tested experimentally the performance of the Sørensen and the Shannon indices, and the trophic diatom index (TDI). Nitrogen was naturally limiting in the eight remote sub-Arctic streams used and we measured the effects of experimental nitrogen enrichment on diatom assemblages. Diatom densities increased significantly in the enriched reaches but there was no significant difference in invertebrate density between control and treatment reaches. Grazing effects were thus controlled for. Diversity within streams (Shannon index) was significantly reduced by nutrient addition but the Sørensen index did not change. The trophic diatom index (TDI), which is presumed to reflect nutrient concentration, was not influenced by nutrient addition and generally the values were low in both control and treatment reaches. Densities of the diatom genera Achnanthes and Gomphonema increased significantly with enrichment while those of Nitzschia and Fragilaria decreased significantly. Less abundant diatom species, which collectively constituted around 40% in relative abundance in the control reaches, were around 15–18% in treatment reaches. Growth forms were altered by the nutrients. Diatoms attached by mucilage pads were more abundant in treated reaches compared with control reaches. Motile diatoms became scarcer. The size of diatom species was unaffected by nutrient enrichment. This study showed that it is important to test experimentally indices that are developed for particular habitats before using them elsewhere.     

Light,nutrients and grazing interact to determine stream diatom community composition and functional group structure

1. Benthic algal communities are shaped by the availability of nutrients and light and by herbivore consumption. Many studies have examined how one of these factors affects algal communities, but studies simultaneously addressing all three are rare. 2. We investigated the effects of nutrients, light and a herbivore (the snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum) on benthic stream algae in a fully factorial experiment in 128 circular streamside channels. Four nutrient levels (none added to highly enriched), four snail grazing pressures (no snails to 777 individuals m^?2) and two light levels (ambient and 65% reduced) were applied. Colonising algae were dominated by diatoms (Bacillariophyta), which were determined to species using acid‐cleaned samples and assigned to functional groups according to their physiognomic growth form. 3. Diatom community structure changed considerably in response to our manipulations. Light had the strongest influence (as indicated by manova effect size), whereas nutrients had an intermediate effect and grazing was fairly weak. Relative abundances of six common diatom taxa decreased under reduced light, whereas five others became more prevalent. Eight taxa benefitted from nutrient enrichment, while three became rarer. Grazing affected the relative density of only one common taxon, which increased at higher grazing pressure. 4. Diatom functional groups also responded strongly. ‘Low profile’ taxa dominated at low resource levels (nutrients and especially light), whereas ‘high profile’ and ‘motile’ taxa became markedly more prevalent at higher resource levels. 5. Two‐way interactions between experimental factors were quite common. For example, Planothidium lanceolatum and Rossithidium petersenii responded more strongly to nutrient enrichment at reduced than at ambient light, whereas Cocconeis placentula responded more strongly at ambient light. For diatom functional groups, the benefit of nutrient enrichment for ‘motile’ diatoms was greater at ambient than at reduced light. 6. Our results imply that multifactor experiments are required to determine the main forces driving the composition of benthic algal communities. Further, our findings highlight the considerable potential of using functional algal groups as indicators of changing environmental conditions to complement the traditional taxonomic approach.     

Seasonal shifts in the assembly dynamics of benthic macroinvertebrate and diatom communities in a subtropical river

Identifying seasonal shifts in community assembly for multiple biological groups is important to help enhance our understanding of their ecological dynamics. However, such knowledge on lotic assemblages is still limited. In this study, we used biological traits and functional diversity indices in association with null model analyses to detect seasonal shifts in the community assembly mechanisms of lotic macroinvertebrates and diatoms in an unregulated subtropical river in China. We found that functional composition and functional diversity (FRic, FEve, FDis, MNN, and SDNN) showed seasonal variation for macroinvertebrate and diatom assemblages. Null models suggested that environmental filtering, competitive exclusion, and neutral process were all important community assembly mechanisms for both biological groups. However, environmental filtering had a stronger effect on spring macroinvertebrate assemblages than autumn assemblages, but the effect on diatom assemblages was the same in both seasons. Moreover, macroinvertebrate and diatom assemblages were shaped by different environmental factors. Macroinvertebrates were filtered mainly by substrate types, velocity, and COD_Mn, while diatoms were mainly shaped by altitude, substrate types, and water quality. Therefore, our study showed (a) that different biological assemblages in a river system presented similarities and differences in community assembly mechanisms, (b) that multiple processes play important roles in maintaining benthic community structure, and (c) that these patterns and underlying mechanisms are seasonally variable. Thus, we highlight the importance of exploring the community assembly mechanisms of multiple biological groups, especially in different seasons, as this is crucial to improve the understanding of river community changes and their responses to environmental degradation.     

大理西湖流域开发历史与硅藻群落变化的模式识别

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