海洋中藻菌相互关系及其生态功能

海洋中藻类与细菌密不可分,具有错综复杂的互作关系(如互利共生、敌对拮抗或竞争抑制等),共同构成了海洋生态系统结构与功能的重要调控者。在藻类细胞周围往往存在着特殊的藻际微环境,其中生存着独特的微生物群落,因此藻际环境成为藻菌相互作用的主战场。藻际环境中细菌群落的构建具有一定的规律。在自然生态系统中,藻菌互作影响赤潮生消动态过程,并在水质修复中具有重要作用潜力。同时,藻类和细菌作为驱动海洋固碳与储碳的主要生物因子,在海洋碳循环中具有尤为重要的作用。本文对海洋中藻菌互作关系的研究现状进行了综述,并在此基础上,对未来研究提出了几点展望。例如,目前对海洋中藻菌关系受病毒的调控作用了解甚少,值得未来深入研究。     

海洋细菌生态学的若干前沿课题及其研究新进展

海洋细菌在海洋生态系统中的重要作用随着微食物环的提出被深入认识和充分肯定。本文概述了海洋细菌在微食物环中的重要生态作用及微食物环的研究进展,海洋细菌在碳的生物地球化学循环中的重要性,海洋细菌的活性及其群落结构与功能,分析了藻际环境特性和藻际微生物在赤潮多发海域的生态作用,提出了我国海洋细菌生态学研究的若干新思考与新任务,强调了基于"以菌治藻"的新理念,开展针对于赤潮灾害防除的"微食物环-赤潮-关键微生物菌群"耦合互作这一重要科学问题研究的必要性及紧迫性。     

Community level physiological study of algicidal bacteria in the phycospheres of Skeletonema costatum and Scrippsiella trochoidea

Bacteria in the phycosphere have a unique ecological relationship with host algae due to their utilization of algal extracellular products as nutrients. Some bacteria control the growth of algal cells and even lyse them. The diversity of bacteria and their community dynamics in the phycosphere of microalgae are still relatively little understood, especially of those associated with red tide-causing algae. In this study, scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of algal cell morphology revealed that the phycosphere bacteria of the red tide-causing algae, Skeletonema costatum and Scrippsiella trochoidea, could lyse them within 72 h. The community level physiology of the algicidal bacteria was studied using Biolog ECO microplates, a common method for the ecological study of microbial communities. The average well color development (AWCD) values of bacteria in the phycospheres of both species were low, indicating that the bacteria had low metabolic activity overall. The diversity indices were both lower than the bacterial diversity from natural environments. However, the bacteria associated with S. trochoidea demonstrated a higher AWCD value and diversity than those in the phycosphere of S. costatum. The utilization of carbon sources significantly changed at different lytic times, reflecting that the bacterial community structure changed during the algae-lysing process. These results revealed that the bacterial communities in phycospheres had a simple structure and low diversity. When the balance between algae and bacteria broke down, the total bacterial density increased while the algicidal bacteria accumulated and became the dominant species, changing the bacterial community structure in this micro-ecosystem.