凤眼莲入侵程度对金鱼藻和黑藻生长及种间关系的影响

湿地生态系统中凤眼莲（Eichhornia crassipes）入侵造成湿地植物群落结构退化及功能崩溃,直接影响沉水植物的生长繁殖及初级生产力。目前关于凤眼莲的入侵机制有一定的研究,而关于凤眼莲入侵程度对沉水植物金鱼藻（Ceratophyllum demersum）和黑藻（Hydrilla verticillate）生长及种间关系的影响相对缺乏。以外来入侵植物凤眼莲,沉水植物金鱼藻和黑藻为研究对象,设计凤眼莲入侵程度（无入侵,轻度入侵对应盖度25%,重度入侵对应盖度75%）交叉定植方式（黑藻单种模式、金鱼藻单种模式,金鱼藻和黑藻混种模式）的控制实验,探究凤眼莲入侵强度对沉水植物金鱼藻和黑藻生长及种间关系的影响。结果表明,凤眼莲入侵程度显著降低了金鱼藻的生物量、分枝数;黑藻的株高、分枝数和分节数。无凤眼莲入侵时,两种沉水植物生物量均最大,两者种间竞争关系较强;随凤眼莲入侵盖度增加,两种沉水植物的生物量先急剧降低后略微增加,种间关系经过微弱促进后又变为竞争作用,其中黑藻表现出明显的竞争优势。此外,凤眼莲入侵略微降低了水体中的总氮、总磷含量。结构方程模型分析结果表明凤眼莲入侵以及水体总氮、总磷等水体理化性质对沉水植物生长均有显著负向影响（P<0.05）,且水体理化性质对沉水植物生长的影响强于凤眼莲入侵。总之,凤眼莲入侵显著降低了金鱼藻和黑藻生长繁殖,随着凤眼莲入侵程度增加,两种沉水植物种间关系由竞争转变为促进再转变为竞争。研究结果为凤眼莲入侵有效控制及湿地沉水植被的恢复与重建提供了一定的理论依据和技术支撑。     

不同营养水平对外来物种凤眼莲生长特征及其竞争力的影响

入侵种凤眼莲(Eichhorniacrassipes)在中国的泛滥不仅与其强大的适应力和繁殖能力有关,还与水体的富营养化有很大的关系。作者通过盆栽实验比较了三个营养水平的模拟富营养条件下凤眼莲的生长特征和对当地种黄花水龙(Ludwigiapeploidesssp.stipulacea)和黑藻(Hydrillaverticillata)两个不同生长型的影响。结果表明:富营养条件增强了凤眼莲的生长繁殖能力,使其平均每母株克隆分株数、平均株高以及总生物量极大的增加。凤眼莲的生长优势导致了其竞争优势,对黄花水龙和黑藻都发生了明显的竞争效应。迅速繁殖的凤眼莲覆盖大量水面,通过排挤作用抑制了黄花水龙的生长(低营养水平除外);黑藻因光照缺乏,导致正常光合作用受阻,生物量急剧下降。凤眼莲对黑藻的竞争效应较黄花水龙更强。富营养化的水体为凤眼莲的成功入侵提供了优越条件,因此解决当前水体的富营养化状况能有效控制凤眼莲入侵,同时也有利于本地生物多样性的保护。     

基于富营养化水体修复的凤眼莲放养及采收条件研究

为实现富营养化水体的修复,对影响凤眼莲〔Eichhornia crassipes(Mart.)Sloms〕高产高效的放养及采收条件(包括初始放养日期、采收标准和采收比例)进行了研究,并对凤眼莲的生长曲线以及N、P和K的积累量进行了分析。实验结果表明:在总氮、总磷和钾含量分别为3.41~7.18、0.05~0.27和2.24~5.18 mg.L-1的水体中,在生长前期由于产生分蘖和植株个体生长,凤眼莲生物量快速增加;当植株生长至一定高度,生物量增幅减小;通过这一生长过程,凤眼莲的最高生物量可达28.28 kg.m-2。初始放养日期对凤眼莲的生长曲线和生物量均有明显影响,随初始放养日期的推迟生物量逐渐增大,在4月10日、4月17日、4月24日、5月1日和5月8日放养的凤眼莲经过63 d的放养,生物量均明显增加,其中,5月8日放养的凤眼莲总生物量最高,达到24.36 kg.m-2。采收标准和采收比例对凤眼莲的采收频率和累计采收量以及N、P和K积累量具有显著影响。按照10~15、15~20、20~25、25 kg.m-2以上及最高生物量的采收标准以及1/2和2/3的采收比例进行采收,凤眼莲的累计采收量均高于一次性采收(对照),且与其生物量呈抛物线型关系,但采收频率则与生物量成反比;采取不同的采收标准及采收比例,凤眼莲的干物质含量及N、P和K含量及总量均有一定的差异,但除干物质含量外,N、P和K含量及总量均明显高于一次性采收;总体上,采用20~25 kg.m-2的采收标准及2/3采收比例,凤眼莲的累计采收量最高、采收频率较少,对N、P和K的积累量最大。综合比较结果显示:在南京地区凤眼莲可于4月初开始放养,4月至5月分蘖,6月以后正常生长,并可按照20~25 kg.m-2的采收标准和2/3的采收比例进行采收。     

外源酚对凤眼莲体内酚含量和与酚代谢有关酶的影响

凤眼莲能够吸收和在体内聚集外源苯酚,体内的酸含量随着环境中酚浓度的上升而上升。从生长于合酚培养液中的凤眼莲体内能够检测到酚糖苷,说明凤眼莲体内有酚精苷转移酶的存在。浓度小于５０ｍｇ／Ｌ的外源酚能提高凤眼莲体内的多酚氧化酶和过氧化物酶的活性。多酚氯化酶与过氧化物酶在线粒体和微粒体中均有不同程度的分布,而酚糖苷转移酶则不存在于这些细胞器中。     

凤眼莲种植对滇池水体环境质量的影响

利用凤眼莲进行富营养化水体水质净化和生态恢复已经成为水生生态系统修复的一种有效途径。为了探明凤眼莲在净化水质时对水体环境质量的影响, 于2010年4月-2011年3月对滇池凤眼莲种植区域水体环境质量进行了监测, 并与对照组进行了比较研究, 结果表明, 凤眼莲种植降低了水体pH值、透明度、光照强度和溶解氧含量, 与对照区相比, 凤眼莲种植增加了水体中硫化物的含量, 凤眼莲种植对水体环境质量的影响呈一定的月份波动, 推测认为这与凤眼莲本身的生长特性相关。研究结果为大面积种植凤眼莲进行水质净化和水体修复时生态安全控制提供了理论依据。     

凤眼莲与其根际细菌相互作用的研究

凤眼莲及其根际细菌的相互关系明显地受营养条件的影响,生长在含糖培养基中的凤眼莲根分泌物不改变其根际细菌的生长动态,但在含酚和无机营养条件下生长的凤眼莲根分泌物分别使其根际细菌出现２次和３次增长;而且在含酚环境中,根际细菌对凤眼莲表现出更为强烈的根际效应．细菌的代谢产物能提高凤眼莲体内的多酚氧化酶的活性,却抑制过氧化物酶的活性和减少其体内酚的富集量;然而接菌后的凤眼莲,其体内多酚氧化酶和过氧化物酶同时得到激活,且酚富集量增加．     

太湖开阔水域凤眼莲的放养实验

１９９１－１９９３年在无锡市马山自来水厂太湖水源区开展的旨在除去藻类和净化水质的物理生态工程实验结果表明,在常有大风浪的太湖开阔水域凤眼莲能正常生长繁殖,夏季的净生产力达５００ｇ／ｍ＾２／ｄ左右。根据实验所得,探讨了在该湖开阔水域放养凤眼莲的技术,研究了凤眼莲在不同时期,不同密度下的生产力,增长率,适宜放养密度等,提出了对凤眼莲生长的计算方法,在此基础上,对比分析了凤眼莲在太湖与内塘生长的个体生物     

凤眼莲叶片超氧物歧化酶的初步研究

本文研究凤眼莲叶片ＳＯＤ活性与低温、ＰＨ和衰老等环境和生理因素的关系。试验结果表明,凤眼莲叶片主要含Ｃｕ－Ｚｎ－ＳＯＤ。ＫＣＮ明显抑制ＳＯＤ活性。环境ＰＨ小范围改变对ＳＯＤ的影响不大,只有当ＰＨ有较大变化时,酶活性才明显下降,ＳＯＤ同工酶酶带数目减少。持续低温导致ＳＯＤ活性减弱,减弱的程度与低温持续的时间呈正相关性。随着凤眼莲叶片的衰老,ＳＯＤ活性逐渐下降。老叶的ＳＯＤ活性显著低于幼叶,其同工酶带     

石化废水中酚对凤眼莲生长的影响

半动态酚毒性模拟试验表明：酚浓度高于600mg／l,凤眼莲几天内中毒死亡;酚浓度350mg／l以上亦造成不可恢复的损伤;酚浓度40mg／l以上,凤眼莲生长受到不同程度的抑制。同时叶绿素含量及a／b比率,光合作用速率及生长率等亦随酚浓度增高而降低。较强光照增加了酚的毒性影响。酚浓度25mg／l以下对凤眼莲无明显抑制影响。10mg／l以下浓度的酚还可以促进凤眼莲的生长。酚使凤眼莲无性繁殖能力下降但可促进其提早开花。     

凤眼莲、水花生若干光合作用参数与酶类的研究

在正常的生长条件下,凤眼莲有较高的叶面系数、叶绿素含量和光合强度。叶片可溶性糖含量也高。在低温胁迫下,凤眼莲和水花生根系活力和过氧化物酶、过氧化氢酶、细胞色素氧化酶、淀粉酶等酶活性均明显下降。试验结果表明,凤眼莲对低温胁迫较水花生更为敏感。     

凤眼莲无菌苗培养及其克藻效应

次第选用固体培养基、有机培养溶液和无机培养溶液,通过改善培养条件,从凤眼莲的腋芽培养出生长正常的无菌苗。用生物检测法测试无菌苗对衣藻的克制效应。试验结果表明,在无根际微生物着生的条件下,凤眼莲种植水仍然显示了克藻作用,说明克藻物质是由凤眼莲本身分泌的,不是由根际微生物所产生的。     

水体中氮素对水葫芦生长发育的影响

本文通过对水体中氮素营养条件的研究,分析了水体中不同氮素对水葫芦生长的影响,从而为福建省水葫芦的综合治理提供科学依据。结果表明：在水体氮浓度为25～30mg·L^1的范围内,水葫芦生长情况最佳,高于或低于这个范围,水葫芦的生长发育均受到不同程度的抑制。     

Water hyacinth in Lake Victoria: Why did it vanish so quickly and will it return?

Water hyacinth has been a cause of great concern in terms of environmental and socio-economic impacts within Lake Victoria. In the late 1990s however it rapidly disappeared but since the causes are unknown its possible return cannot be predicted. Growth chamber and laboratory experiments investigating CO₂ assimilation and growth rate found that different phenotypic, density-acclimated, growth forms of water hyacinth behaved differently. PI-curves and changes in biomass revealed that short bulbous (SB) growth forms took up CO₂ more rapidly and increased in biomass quicker than tall non-bulbous (TN) growth forms. This allows the two growth forms to flourish within two different niches. One, the SB form, as a colonising opportunist and the other as a taller plant that attempts to avoid self-shading in dense mats. Light is an important limiting factor to water hyacinth growth. Light becomes non-limiting to CO₂ uptake at a PAR of ≈2000 μE m⁻² s⁻¹. In Lake Victoria this light level occurs for about 6 h around midday. Plant growth is thus light limited for most of the day and can be limited even at midday during cloudy weather. Although weevils likely played a role in the rapid disappearance of water hyacinth, its demise was too rapid and synchronous in this large lake for weevils to be solely responsible. The cloudy, wet El Nino weather of 1997/1998 was probably a major contributory factor to poor growth that led to the reduction in water hyacinth biomass lake-wide. Currently within Lake Victoria an improved light climate, an ever increasing supply of nutrients and a potentially unstable weevil population will likely allow the resurgence of this aggressive weed.     

A Leaf Spot of Water Hyacinth Caused by Drechslera spicifera

In the present study, corn meal agar was found as the best medium for growth of Drechslera spicifera, a pathogen of water hyacinth. Small water hyacinth plants exhibited a smaller number of lesions/leaf when inoculated with D. spicifera compared with inoculated medium and large plants. However, percentage total diseased area/leaf was almost the same among the different plant sizes. The pathogen did not interfere with the vegetative plant growth, since, both infected and healthy water hyacinth plants of the same age showed similar percentages of new leaf growth. Leaf diffusates of water hyacinth plants significantly reduced conidiospore germination in D. spicifera.     

Partitioning of Soluble Calcium in the Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes (Martius) Solms) in Lake Victoria,Uganda

Abstract: An investigation of soluble calcium partitioning in organs of the water hyacinth growing along the shores of L. Victoria, bordering Jinja town was carried out. The levels of Na⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺ and Ca²⁺ in the lake water were also estimated. The pH and electrical conductivity of lake water were determined. There was a differential accumulation of Ca and oxalate between component organs of the water hyacinth. The concentration of oxalate in the various organs was more than twice that of Ca. Soluble Ca decreased with age in all organs except the leaf, while oxalate increased with age in all organs except the rhizome. There were site variations in the partitioning of both Ca and oxalate in the water hyacinth.     

马缨丹叶提取液对水葫芦叶片中超氧物歧化酶活性和过氧化氢积累的影响

水葫芦[Eichhornia crassipes（Mart）Solms]是世界上繁殖最快、危害最严重的多年生水生杂草之一。为了避免化学除草剂对水体的污染,生物防治已成为当前水葫芦治理的重要方向。马缨丹（Lantana camara）是马鞭草科的一种植物,其叶片提取物对水葫芦有很强的毒性。研究结果表明：经马缨丹叶提取液处理的水葫芦叶片中,超氧物歧化酶（SOD）活性与H2O2浓度均显著升高,但过氧化氢酶的活性受到抑制,膜脂过氧化程度明显增加。H2O2的组织化学染色结果表明H2O2在气孔细胞中有异常高的积累,H2O2过量产生同时导致水葫芦叶片失绿与细胞死亡。因此,氧胁迫可能是马缨丹提取液对水葫芦毒害的主要原因之一。     

Feeding impact of the planthopper Taosa longula (Hemiptera: Dictyopharidae) on water hyacinth,Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae)

Taosa longula Remes Lenicov (Hemiptera: Dictyopharidae), a planthopper native to South America, is a candidate for the biological control of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms-Laubach (Pontederiaceae), a serious weed worldwide. Biological control requires agents that are not only specific but also effective. Damage caused by sap-sucking insects is difficult to assess. In this work we designed an experimental and analytical procedure to evaluate the potential damage of T. longula on water hyacinth. The damage that T. longula causes to the clonal reproduction, biomass production, and growth of water hyacinth was studied through a paired greenhouse trial with floating cages. The performance of the plant, starting from two plants per treatment, was evaluated at different insect densities (5, 10, 15 and 20 nymphs per cage) until all the nymphs moulted to adults. The tests showed that individual growth and biomass production of water hyacinth was reduced due to the effect of the insect feeding above five nymphs per cage. The number of new plants produced by clonal reproduction was only significantly different above 15 nymphs per cage. These results suggest that this planthopper could be an effective agent for the biological control of water hyacinth.     

Adsorption of Methylene Blue Dye on Pure and Carbonized Water Weeds

The influence of process variables in batch adsorption has been used to assess the removal of methylene blue dye from aqueous solution using pure and carbonized biomasses of water hyacinth and water spinach. Dried leaves of the water weeds were carbonized at temperature up to 750°C. The optimum removal of dye was achieved at pH 10, 30°C, and 55 min at a dye concentration of 10 mg/L. In an attempt to describe the adsorption process, the equilibrium isotherm for each adsorbent was determined using Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models. Maximum adsorption capacities based on the Langmuir model for pure and carbonized water hyacinth were (mg/g) 7.05 and 2.07, respectively, whereas those of pure and carbonized water spinach were 1.25 and 5.32, respectively. It was observed that the equilibrium data were well fit by both the Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms as R ² > .97. This study demonstrates that the two waterweeds are effective, environmentally friendly, and inexpensive biomaterials for the removal of color from industrial effluents.     

Facilitation and Competition among Invasive Plants: A Field Experiment with Alligatorweed and Water Hyacinth

Ecosystems that are heavily invaded by an exotic species often contain abundant populations of other invasive species. This may reflect shared responses to a common factor, but may also reflect positive interactions among these exotic species. Armand Bayou (Pasadena, TX) is one such ecosystem where multiple species of invasive aquatic plants are common. We used this system to investigate whether presence of one exotic species made subsequent invasions by other exotic species more likely, less likely, or if it had no effect. We performed an experiment in which we selectively removed exotic rooted and/or floating aquatic plant species and tracked subsequent colonization and growth of native and invasive species. This allowed us to quantify how presence or absence of one plant functional group influenced the likelihood of successful invasion by members of the other functional group. We found that presence of alligatorweed (rooted plant) decreased establishment of new water hyacinth (free-floating plant) patches but increased growth of hyacinth in established patches, with an overall net positive effect on success of water hyacinth. Water hyacinth presence had no effect on establishment of alligatorweed but decreased growth of existing alligatorweed patches, with an overall net negative effect on success of alligatorweed. Moreover, observational data showed positive correlations between hyacinth and alligatorweed with hyacinth, on average, more abundant. The negative effect of hyacinth on alligatorweed growth implies competition, not strong mutual facilitation (invasional meltdown), is occurring in this system. Removal of hyacinth may increase alligatorweed invasion through release from competition. However, removal of alligatorweed may have more complex effects on hyacinth patch dynamics because there were strong opposing effects on establishment versus growth. The mix of positive and negative interactions between floating and rooted aquatic plants may influence local population dynamics of each group and thus overall invasion pressure in this watershed.