乌鳢养殖对浮游动物群落结构的影响

通过对乌鳢(Channa argus)养殖池塘和对照水体即排水区和南阳湖的比较研究,探讨了乌鳢养殖对浮游动物群落结构的影响。研究表明,乌鳢养殖池塘的浮游动物物种数24种,密度1 032 ind/L,均明显低于周边水体(排水区64种,密度1 995 ind/L;近湖区65种,密度2 569 ind/L),而其生物量达4.65 mg/L,高于周边水体(排水区3.10 mg/L,近湖区2.85 mg/L),这主要是由于养殖池塘浮游动物生物量以枝角类、桡足类和无节幼体等大型浮游动物(95.70%)为主体,原生动物和轮虫所占比例(4.30%)相对较小,而周边水体则以原生动物和轮虫为主体;养殖池塘优势种为大型溞(Daphnia magna)和萼花臂尾轮虫(Brachionus calyciflorus),亦不同于周边水体的优势种;综合分析浮游动物优势种和多样性指数的评价结果,池塘水体呈中度污染,排水区水体呈轻度-中度污染,近南阳湖水域达到了轻度污染水平,这表明乌鳢养殖对周边水体造成了一定程度污染。     

千岛湖浮游动物的群落结构

研究了贫－中营养型的大型,深水湖泊－－浙江千岛湖浮游动物的群落结构,包括种类组成,种群动态,现存量及群落多样性指数。在1a的研究中,共发现139种浮游动物（27种原生动物,70种轮虫,26种枝角类和16种桡足类）。根据年平均密度,各类浮游动物的优势种分别为褶累枝(Epistylis plicatilie),螺形龟甲轮虫9Keratella cochlearis),透明蚤（Daphnia hyalina)和一种中剑水蚤（Mesocyclops notius)。轮虫和枝角类群落多样性指数随着水体透明度的增大呈下降的趋势;采样站变异下,枝角类群落多样性指数与其种类数和密度呈显著的正相关关系;月份变异下,桡足类群落多样性指数与其密度呈显著的正相关关系。     

五大连池浮游动物群落结构的时空分布特征

基于2011—2013年五大连池的调查,对浮游动物群落结构时空分布特征进行分析,探讨重点放养鱼类之一鳙Aristichthys nobilis的合理放养量。结果表明,五大连池浮游动物4类82种(含未定种);主要优势种集中于原生动物和轮虫,有恩氏筒壳虫Tintinnidium entzii、纵长异尾轮虫Trichocerca elongate等,大型浮游动物中仅剑水蚤Cyclops sp.、无节幼体Nauplii形成优势;密度、生物量总计为3794.98ind/L和2.4558mg/L;多样性指数H'、J、d均值分别为2.15、0.7和0.98;浮游动物群落时空差异显著,五池密度、生物量、多样性、均匀度较高,二池(P2)、三池(P3)相似且次于五池;另外,二池(P2)、三池(P3)浮游动物的密度、生物量、多样性均呈现夏季高于春秋季;根据结果获得五大连池鳙的合理放养量为5.71×105尾。研究可为五大连池生境保护和渔业资源的可持续利用提供科学依据。     

渭河流域浮游动物群落结构及其水质评价

分别于2017年10月和2018年6月对渭河流域内12个采样点的浮游动物种类、物种密度、生物量和水温、电导率、溶解氧浓度和pH等水质指标进行调查, 并利用生物多样性指数法对水质进行评价。结果显示, 共鉴定出57种浮游动物(原生动物11种、轮虫33种、枝角类7种、桡足类6种)。优势种为萼花臂尾轮虫Brachionus calyciflorus。枯水期浮游动物密度变化范围在0.72—7.84 ind./L, 平均密度为(2.79±2.11) ind./L; 浮游动物生物量为0.38—6.15 mg/L, 平均生物量为(2.31±2.64) mg/L; CCA分析表明, 水温、溶解氧、海拔和电导率与渭河流域浮游动物群落结构有明显的相关性; Shannon-Wiener多样性指数、Margalef丰富度指数分别为1.07、0.69。丰水期浮游动物密度变化范围在0—179.02 ind./L, 平均密度为(16.66±49.18) ind./L; 浮游动物生物量0—2448.12 mg/L, 平均生物量为(243.96±673.78) mg/L; Shannon-Wiener多样性指数Margalef丰富度指数分别为0.78、1.15。依据浮游动物种类密度和多样性指数对水质进行评价, 结果为渭河水系北道、林家村为中度污染, 魏家堡为重度污染, 咸阳、临潼、华县为轻度污染; 泾河水系杨家坪、雨落坪、张家山为中度污染; 北洛河水系刘家河、交口河、状头为中度污染。     

武汉东湖浮游动物群落结构的研究

对１９９１年武汉东湖不同湖区浮游动物群落结构的研究表明,Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ站浮游动物的数量为１２２７８２、７０４１５和１８１８４个·Ｌ（－１）,并随水体富营养化程度增加而增加．生物量分别为８．６３９、５．８７２和２．０８２ｍｇ·Ｌ（－１）。大于１ｍｍ的甲壳动物个体频度为０．１５、０．３０、０．４１．其体长随鱼产量的增加而缩小．最后,对影响东湖浮游动物群落结构的主要生态因子进行了讨论．     

吕宋海峡浮游动物群落结构的初步研究

不同理化性质的水团影响浮游动物种类组成和群落结构。为了探讨吕宋海峡的环境对浮游动物群落结构的影响,于2008年8月15日至9月15日对吕宋海峡浮游动物的种类组成和丰度分布进行了调查和分析。共鉴定出浮游动物257种和浮游幼虫12个类群,吕宋海峡西部海域浮游动物种类数和多样性比中东部海域的高。浮游动物平均丰度为(16.76±11.36)ind./m3。其中,吕宋海峡西部海域浮游动物平均丰度高于吕宋海峡中东部海域。聚类分析结果表明,吕宋海峡浮游动物可分为两个类群,一类为分布于吕宋海峡的中东部,受黑潮水影响的类群;另一类为分布于吕宋海峡西部,受南海水影响的类群。吕宋海峡浮游动物群落结构反映了该海域浮游动物的种类组成和分布受不同性质水团的调控。     

滤食杂食性鱼类放养对浮游动物群落结构的影响

滤食杂食性鱼类是我国南方水体中常见鱼类,本文调查了放养滤食杂食性鱼类后浮游动物的丰度和种类组成的变化,以探讨其对浮游动物群落的影响.结果显示,滤食杂食性鱼类放养之后,枝角类模糊秀体溞(Diaphanosoma dubium)、微型裸腹溞(Moina micrura)和桡足类蒙古温剑水蚤(Thermocyclops mongolicus)、南方近镖水蚤(Tropodiaptomus australis)等丰度迅速下降,而轮虫丰度在鱼类放养一周后迅速增加,且保持较高的密度;轮虫优势种也发生了变化,调查前两周主要以臂尾轮虫(Brachionus)为主,两周后以暗小异尾轮虫(Trichocereidae pusilla)、广布多肢轮虫(Polyarthra trigla)和裂痕龟纹轮虫(Anuraeopsisfissa)等个体更小的种类为主.本研究说明,滤食杂食性鱼类能够显著影响浮游动物群落结构,个体较大的种类受到的影响较大,最后导致浮游动物群落的小型化.     

淀山湖浮游动物的群落结构及动态

为帮助利用生物操纵技术进行淀山湖水体富营养化治理,2004年1月至2005年12月对淀山湖浮游动物群落结构,包括种类组成、种群动态、现存量进行了2周年的系统调查.淀山湖浮游动物有128种,其中浮游原生动物23属29种、轮虫23属51种、枝角类15属33种、桡足类15种.年均密度6 965ind/L,原生动物和轮虫分别占62.19%和36.77%,密度高峰出现在春季;生物量年均为6.00mg/L,以轮虫和枝角类占优势,分别占51.65%和38.38%,生物量高峰出现在夏季.4个类群浮游动物多样性指数H'与其均匀度指数J呈显著正相关,原生动物群落多样性指数H'与其密度呈显著负相关.根据浮游动物密度及优势种组成特征判断,淀山湖水质为富营养型.原生动物多样性指数具有较好的水质指示作用.     

杭州湾不同水域秋季浮游动物群落结构及其影响因素

依据2009、2011和2012年秋季在杭州湾北岸东侧水域(30.68°—30.83° N,121.67°—121.87° E)、杭州湾南岸东侧水域(29.95°—30.24° N,121.60°—121.85° E)和杭州湾北岸西侧水域(30.58°—30.77° N,121.31°—121.56° E)的海洋综合调查资料,分析了杭州湾不同水域浮游动物的种类组成、生态类群及相似性等群落结构特征,以及其影响因素.结果表明: 杭州湾北岸西侧水域浮游动物有14种,虫肢歪水蚤为绝对优势种,钱塘江径流是影响该水域浮游动物的主要水团,生态类群以亚热带河口半咸水种为主,占浮游动物总丰度的79.8%.杭州湾北岸东侧水域浮游动物有19种,主要受长江冲淡水和东海外海水水团的影响,生态类群主要为暖温带沿岸低盐种和亚热带沿岸低盐种,分别占该水域总丰度的43.5%和31.1%.杭州湾南岸东侧水域浮游动物有25种,主要受东海外海水的影响,亚热带沿岸低盐种的丰度占总丰度的72.3%,为最主要的生态类群,其次是亚热带近海种,占总丰度的18.3%,其中亚热带沿岸低盐种左突唇角水蚤占总丰度的65.3%.聚类、排序结果表明,杭州湾不同水域浮游动物群落结构的空间异质性分布比较明显,与各自水域受到不同水团的影响有关.     

渤海浮游动物群落生态特点Ⅰ.种类组成与群落结构

以1959年全国海洋普查浮游动物中网周年标本为材料,对渤海浮游动物的群落结构进行分析.渤海浮游动物群落以近岸广温种为主,主要优势种包括小拟哲水蚤(Paracalanus parvus)、双毛纺锤水蚤(Acartia bifilosa)、强额拟哲水蚤(Paracalanus crassirostris)、拟长腹剑水蚤(Oithona similis)、墨氏胸刺水蚤(Centropages mcmurrichi)、中华哲水蚤(Calanus sinicus)、真刺唇角水蚤(Labidocera enchaeta)、强壮箭虫(Sagitta crassa)等.由于受海流影响,渤海中也有少量暖水性种类出现,包括Euchaeta rimana Bradford 1974、精致真刺水蚤(Euchaeta concinna)、刺尾角水蚤(Pontella spinicauda)、羽环纽鳃樽(Cyclosalpa pinnata)、长吻纽鳃樽(Brooksia rostrata)、锯齿海樽(Doliolum denticulatum)、肥胖箭虫(Sagitta enflata)和介形类.聚类分析和主要成分分析的结果表明:受海流影响,春季(5月份)渤海浮游动物群落可以划分成近岸型、受黄海海流影响的外海型以及过渡类型.夏季(8月份)由于水文条件的差异,群落结构比较复杂.秋、冬季(11月份、2月份)主要是以近岸类型为主,这可能同该海区盛行东北风有关.     

牧食损害对伊乐藻(Elodea nuttallii)生长的影响

在室外实验条件下,研究了模拟牧食损害(动物牧食所造成的损害)对伊乐藻植株生长的影响。结果表明:3种人工损害方式(去除植株50%叶片,去除植株顶端,以及同时去除植物顶端与50%叶片)对伊乐藻的生长率、主枝与分枝长度的增长、植物的干物质、氮、磷含量等均有不同程度的影响。其中,去叶与去顶去叶损害显著抑制了伊乐藻的生长,相对生长率分别占未受损植株的62.8%与74.4%;去顶与去顶去叶损害使伊乐藻主枝生长几乎停止,却显著促进了植物分枝的生长;去叶损害对植株的生长率、主枝与分枝长度的生长无明显抑制并却显著地降低了分枝的重量。对受损伊乐藻生长的机理进行了分析,探讨了东太湖伊乐藻现存量近年来迅速增加的原因并认为植物残体是伊乐藻种群扩张的重要因素之一。     

伊乐藻(Elodea nuttallii)对高浓度氮磷营养盐的耐受性

通过5个相对恒定的TN、TP浓度梯度下伊乐藻(Elodea nuttallii)的生长实验,探讨了伊乐藻对高浓度氮磷营养盐的耐受性,比较了各营养盐浓度下水体的pH值、DO、浮游藻类叶绿素a和附着藻类叶绿素a以及伊乐藻的株高、湿质量、干质量和叶绿素a含量.结果表明:在实验条件下,伊乐藻能耐受TN=10 mg·L~(-1),TP=0.4 mg·L~(-1)的胁迫,且在该营养盐水平下水体中没有出现大量的浮游藻类;而在TN=50 mg·L~(-1)、TP=2 mg·L~(-1)和TN=100 mg·L~(-1)、TP=4 mg·L~(-1)的高营养盐条件下,伊乐藻的生长受到了明显的抑制,同时水体中的浮游藻类明显增多,而附着藻类则明显减少;在高营养盐水平下,一方面水体中的某些营养盐可能对伊乐藻产生了直接伤害,另一方面水体中浮游藻类的增多,所导致的遮光作用也可能限制了其生长;对水体中营养盐的平均水平低于TN=10 mg·L~(-1),TP=0.4 mg·L~(-1)的太湖而言,沉水植被的消亡可能不是由于氮磷营养盐所产生的直接伤害和胁迫.     

螺类牧食对伊乐藻与苦草种间关系的影响

动物牧食可以调节植物种间的相对竞争能力,从而改变物种在群落中的竞争地位.外来植物伊乐藻生长迅速、具有较强的光竞争能力,土著种苦草根系发达、具有较强的地下资源竞争能力.选择这两种各具竞争特色的沉水植物为模式生物,通过室外受控实验研究了螺类牧食对两种沉水植物种间关系的影响.结果表明:不管有无螺类牧食,伊乐藻的相对生长率为苦草的2～5倍,伊乐藻具有明显的竞争优势.苦草低密度种植时,螺类牧食与种间竞争对其生长没有显著影响;高密度种植时,螺类牧食活动促进了苦草的生长,种间竞争则使苦草的生长率明显降低.无论伊乐藻种植密度如何,螺类牧食均使其生长率明显降低,混栽高密度的苦草也能抑制伊乐藻生长.探讨了螺类牧食对沉水植物的种间竞争关系的作用机理.     

Studies of Elodea nuttallii grown under photorespiratory conditions. II. Evidence for bicarbonate active transport

Abstract. Elodea nuttallii was grown under greenhouse conditions in domestic wastewater in an aquatic treatment system under conditions conducive to photorespiration. Initial research on the photosynthetic characteristics of E. nuttallii suggest that the submergent macrophyte possessed a carbon concentrating mechanism. Isotopic disequilibria H¹⁴CO₃-uptake studies (5-80s) were used to assess the bicarbonate active-transport capabilities in E. nuttallii leaves. Using a range of substrate concentrations (50-50200mmol m^?3), the accumulation of label (mmol g^?1 Chl) over time due to transport was found initially to exceed accumulation due to fixation until steady state rates were observed. Internal steady state pools of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) ranged from 40 to 80 mol m^?3. The concentration factor (CF: the ratio of internal cyroplasmic (DIC] to external medium [DIC]) decreased from 800 to 114 as external bicarbonate concentrations were increased. Inhibition of transport by uncouplers (2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP), carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP)); ATPase inhibitors (dicylcohexocarbodiamide (DCCD), phloridzin, arsenate); electron transport inhibitors (DCMU, Antimycin A), and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (ethoxyzolamide, acetazolamide) suggest that bicarbonate transport required (1) a proton motive force, (2) a functional ATPase, (3) a chloroplast carbon sink, and possibly (4) a CA-like moiety associated with the transport protein. While plasmalemmasomes were not observed, the plasmalemma was vesiculated and acid and alkaline banding was observed when leaves were incubated under light in the presence of bicarbonate. These data are consistent with the operation of a bicarbonate-cation symport which concentrates substrate against a concentration gradient at the expense of metabolic energy. The presence of an active transport system for bicarbonate ensures that internal carbon concentrations are high when carbon dioxide, is scarce and bicarbonate is the only carbon species available in aquatic treatment systems during photorespiratory conditions. Therefore, E. nuttallii is particularly well suited for use in these systems.     

Predation risk and the structure of freshwater zooplankton communities

Summary Many predators inflict substantial mortality on their prey. The prey respond to these selective pressures with changes in their spatial and temporal overlap with the predator (density risk responses), or with changes in their vulnerability to the predator (prey vulnerability responses). Here we develop a simple predation model that permits quantification of the basic response types of the prey in nature. We then test the hypothesis that prey response will be proportional to the intensity of the predation mortality relative to all other sources of mortality and decreased natality acting on the prey. A significant regression relationship is obtained for the prey vulnerability response but not for any of the density risk responses. The individual response values and regression statistics are used to interpret the relative importance of the different response types and to assess the predator's influence on prey community structure.Supported by Lehigh University Environmental Studies Center     

Effects of water turbulence on variations in cell ultrastructure and metabolism of amino acids in the submersed macrophyte,Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H. St. John

The interactions between macrophytes and water movement are not yet fully understood, and the causes responsible for the metabolic and ultrastructural variations in plant cells as a consequence of turbulence are largely unknown. In the present study, growth, metabolism and ultrastructural changes were evaluated in the aquatic macrophyte Elodea nuttallii, after exposure to turbulence for 30 days. The turbulence was generated with a vertically oscillating horizontal grid. The turbulence reduced plant growth, plasmolysed leaf cells and strengthened cell walls, and plants exposed to turbulence accumulated starch granules in stem chloroplasts. The size of the starch granules increased with the magnitude of the turbulence. Using capillary electrophoresis–mass spectrometry (CE‐MS), analysis of the metabolome found metabolite accumulation in response to the turbulence. Asparagine was the dominant amino acid that was concentrated in stressed plants, and organic acids such as citrate, ascorbate, oxalate and γ‐amino butyric acid (GABA) also accumulated in response to turbulence. These results indicate that turbulence caused severe stress that affected plant growth, cell ultrastructure and some metabolic functions of E. nuttallii. Our findings offer insights to explain the effects of water movement on the functions of aquatic plants.     

Studies of Elodea nuttallii grown under photorespiratory conditions. III. Quantitative cytological characteristics

Abstract. Elodea nuttallii was grown in primary effluent from domestic wastewater under conditions in which CO₂ may be limiting. However, high photosynthetic inorganic carbon uptake rates have been reported for Elodea under these conditions. In order to determine if leaf cell structure showed modifications which would support proposed models of a plasma membrane (PM) bicarbonate transport system and observed high photo-synthetic rates, leaf cell ultrastructure was analysed using quantitative techniques (stereology). A Fold Index (FI) calculated for the PM showed that infolding increased surface area to 2.15 times that of an idealized cell of the same shape and size. Association Indices (Sa) showed a significant association of the mitochondria with the PM. These observations support models for an ATPase-driven HCO₃-cation cotransport system in Elodea cells. High chloroplast thylakoid surface density values (Sv) were similar to C₄:monocots and indicated high light-gathering potential. The granal/stromal (g/s), granal/cristae (g/c), and stromal/cristae (s/c) membrane ratios were similar to those of C₃ plant cells. Thus, Elodea chloroplasts and cells exhibited some structural features similar to both C₃ and C₄ plants. Membrane-bound inclusion bodies, which occupied 1% of the cell volume, were also observed in the leaf cells. Cell walls and nucleoid regions were absent in these bodies and X-ray (EDAX) analysis failed to detect any element (above the resolution limit of atomic no. 12) in substantial quantities. Inclusion bodies were observed in both the cytoplasm and the periplast and remain unidentified. A model is proposed for Elodea using an ATPase proton pump in the plasma membrane which extrudes protons into the periplast space between the cell wall and plasma membrane. This proton gradient is coupled to a bicarbonate symport.     

Biotic relations affecting species structure in zooplankton communities

Mathematical modelling and laboratory experiments were used to study how exploitative competition and predation influence the species structure in cladoceran community. For five species of Cladocera (Sida crystallina, Daphnia magna, Simocephalus vetulus, Daphnia longispina, and Diaphanosoma brachyurum), representing a gradient of body size, population characteristics were described as functions of food concentration. Abundance dynamics were simulated in mixed species cultures and invasion experiments under different levels of food supply corresponding to oligo-, meso-, and eutrophic conditions. Separate simulations were also run including and excluding (fish) predation. The competitive ability of each species was estimated as the values of the population equilibrium food concentration. Simulation results showed that for the no-predator scenario, increases in the level of food supply promoted species coexistence while under lower food concentrations only one species remained at the end of the simulation runs. When predation was allowed, the number of species that coexisted at the end of the simulations increased up to four species, indicating that predator pressure facilitated species coexistence because it shortened periods of food depletion. Simulation results were verified in laboratory experiments which suggested that population equilibrium food concentration can be used as an estimate of competitive ability. Finally, species structure and relative abundance in Lake Naroch (Belarus) during the summer of 2004 was found to be consistent with our results from computer simulation and laboratory experiments with regard to competition and predation impacts on zooplankton community. Handling editor: S. I. Dodson     

Present distribution of the genus Elodea in the Alsatian Upper Rhine floodplain (France) with a special focus on the expansion of Elodea nuttallii St. John during recent decades

Three species of Elodea (Elodea canadensis Michaux, E. nuttallii St John and E. ernstiae St John) have colonized Europe from the American continent. All three arrived in the Alsatian Rhine floodplain (north-eastern France) soon after their arrival in Europe, i.e. in the mid-19th century for E. canadensis, and in the mid-20th century for E. nuttallii and E. ernstiae. The paper investigates the present distribution of Elodea spp. in the floodplain by quantifying the species’ respective occurrences and by describing their habitats. The study further focuses on E. nuttallii which is presently colonizing other parts of Europe. It analyses whether it has continued to expand in the Alsatian Rhine floodplain during recent decades, and it checks whether changes in the abundance of E. nuttallii have had an impact on species richness of water plant communities. E.␣nuttallii has been found to be at present one of the most dominant and most frequent aquatic plant species in the study sector, while E. canadensis and E. ernstiae are less abundant. The species’ distributions differ with regard to water chemistry and water temperature: E. canadensis occurs in oligo-mesotrophic, rather stenothermic habitats, whereas E. nuttallii and E. ernstiae can be encountered in meso- to eutrophic sites with little or no arrival of stenothermic ground water. By comparing successive vegetation relevés from the same sites the study revealed further that the distribution of E. nuttallii has been stable in recent decades, despite local fluctuations in abundance. No relationship could be established between those fluctuations and changes in species richness or type of local plant communities. The sum of the results suggests that the expansion of E. nuttallii in the Alsatian Rhine floodplain had been completed prior to the study period. The species’ present distribution in the study sector as well as its position in local plant communities might therefore be considered a model for what can be expected to happen in areas where E.␣nuttallii has only recently arrived.