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Wang H, Chen K, Jin H, Hu R. Interspecific Differences in Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism and Leaf Epiphytic Bacteria among Three Submerged Macrophytes in Response to Elevated Ammonia Nitrogen Concentrations. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:1427. [PMID: 38891236 PMCID: PMC11174776 DOI: 10.3390/plants13111427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2024] [Revised: 05/08/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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Submerged macrophytes in eutrophic aquatic environments adapt to changes in ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N) levels by modifying their levels of free amino acids (FAAs) and soluble carbohydrates (SCs). As symbionts of submerged macrophytes, epiphytic bacteria have obvious host specificity. In the present study, the interspecific differences in the FAA and SC contents of Hydrilla verticillata (Linn. f.) Roylep, Vallisneria natans Hara and Chara braunii Gmelin and their leaf epiphytic bacterial communities were assessed in response to increased NH4-N concentrations. The results revealed that the response of the three submerged macrophytes to NH4-N stress involved the consumption of SCs and the production of FAAs. The NH4-N concentration had a greater impact on the variation in the FAA content, whereas the variation in the SC content was primarily influenced by the species. At the phylum level, the relative abundance of Nitrospirota on the leaves exhibited specific differences, with the order H. verticillata > V. natans > C. braunii. The dominant genera of epiphytic bacteria with denitrification effects on V. natans, H. verticillata and C. braunii leaves were Halomonas, Acinetobacter and Bacillus, respectively. When faced with NH4-N stress, the variation in epiphytic bacterial populations associated with ammonia oxidation and denitrification among submerged macrophytes could contribute to their divergent responses to heightened nitrogen levels.
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- Heyun Wang
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Health Perception and Ecological Restoration of River and Lake, Ministry of Education, Innovation Demonstration Base of Ecological Environment Geotechnical and Ecological Restoration of Rivers and Lakes, School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China; (K.C.)
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Fray D, McGovern CA, Casamatta DA, Biddanda BA, Hamsher SE. Metabarcoding reveals unique microbial mat communities and evidence of biogeographic influence in low-oxygen, high-sulfur sinkholes and springs. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e11162. [PMID: 38529029 PMCID: PMC10961586 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
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High-sulfur, low-oxygen environments formed by underwater sinkholes and springs create unique habitats populated by microbial mat communities. To explore the diversity and biogeography of these mats, samples were collected from three sites in Alpena, Michigan, one site in Monroe, Michigan, and one site in Palm Coast, Florida. Our study investigated previously undescribed eukaryotic diversity in these habitats and further explored their bacterial communities. Mat samples and water parameters were collected from sulfur spring sites during the spring, summer, and fall of 2022. Cyanobacteria and diatoms were cultured from mat subsamples to create a culture-based DNA reference library. Remaining mat samples were used for metabarcoding of the 16S and rbcL regions to explore bacterial and diatom diversity, respectively. Analyses of water chemistry, alpha diversity, and beta diversity articulated a range of high-sulfur, low-oxygen habitats, each with distinct microbial communities. Conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, sulfate, and chloride had significant influences on community composition but did not describe the differences between communities well. Chloride concentration had the strongest correlation with microbial community structure. Mantel tests revealed that biogeography contributed to differences between communities as well. Our results provide novel information on microbial mat composition and present evidence that both local conditions and biogeography influence these unique communities.
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- Davis Fray
- Annis Water Resources InstituteGrand Valley State UniversityMuskegonMichiganUSA
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of North FloridaJacksonvilleFloridaUSA
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- Annis Water Resources InstituteGrand Valley State UniversityMuskegonMichiganUSA
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- Annis Water Resources InstituteGrand Valley State UniversityMuskegonMichiganUSA
- Department of BiologyGrand Valley State UniversityAllendaleMichiganUSA
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Manirakiza B, Zhang S, Addo FG, Yu M, Alklaf SA. Interactions between water quality and microbes in epiphytic biofilm and superficial sediment of lake in trophic agriculture area. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:169321. [PMID: 38103607 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 11/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Epiphytic and superficial sediment biofilm-dwelling microbial communities play a pivotal role in water quality regulation and biogeochemical cycling in shallow lakes. However, the interactions are far from clear between water physicochemical parameters and microbial community on aquatic plants and in surface sediments of lake in trophic agriculture area. This study employed Illumina sequencing, Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS-PM), and physico-chemical analytical methods to explore the interactions between water quality and microbes (bacteria and eukaryotes) in three substrates of trophic shallow Lake Cyohoha North, Rwanda. The Lake Cyohoha was significantly polluted with total phosphorus (TP), total nitrogen (TN), nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N), and ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N) in the wet season compared to the dry season. PLS-PM revealed a strong positive correlation (+0.9301) between land use types and physico-chemical variables in the rainy season. In three substrates of the trophic lake, Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria were dominant phyla in the bacterial communities, and Rotifers, Platyhelminthes, Gastrotricha, and Ascomycota dominated in microeukaryotic communities. As revealed by null and neutral models, stochastic processes predominantly governed the assembly of bacterial and microeukaryotic communities in biofilms and surface sediments. Network analysis revealed that the microbial interconnections in Ceratophyllum demersum were more stable and complex compared to those in Eichhornia crassipes and sediments. Co-occurrence network analysis (|r| > 0.7, p < 0.05) revealed that there were complex interactions among physicochemical parameters and microbes in epiphytic and sediment biofilms, and many keystone microbes on three substrates played important role in nutrients removal, food web and microbial community stable. These findings emphasize that eutrophic water influence the structure, composition, and interactions of microbes in epiphytic and surface sediment biofilms, and provided new insights into the interconnections between water quality and microbial community in presentative substrates in tropical lacustrine ecosystems in agriculturally polluted areas. The study provides useful information for water quality protection and aquatic plants restoration for policy making and catchment management.
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- Benjamin Manirakiza
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; University of Rwanda (UR), College of Science and Technology (CST), Department of Biology, 3900, Kigali, Rwanda
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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Siriarchawatana P, Harnpicharnchai P, Phithakrotchanakoon C, Kitikhun S, Mayteeworakoon S, Chunhametha S, Eurwilaichitr L, Ingsriswang S. Elucidating potential bioindicators from insights in the diversity and assembly processes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities in the Mekong River. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 243:117800. [PMID: 38056615 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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Drivers for spatio-temporal distribution patterns of overall planktonic prokaryotes and eukaryotes in riverine ecosystems are generally not fully understood. This study employed amplicon metabarcoding to investigate the distributions and assembly mechanisms of bacterial and eukaryotic communities in the Mekong River. The prevailing bacteria taxa were found to be Betaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes, while the dominant eukaryotic organisms were cryptophytes, chlorophytes, and diatoms. The community assemblages were influenced by a combination of stochastic and deterministic processes. Drift (DR) and dispersal limitation (DL), signifying the stochastic mechanism, were the main processes shaping the overall prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities. However, homogeneous selection (HoS), indicating deterministic mechanism, played a major role in the assembly process of core prokaryotic communities, especially in the wet season. In contrast, the core eukaryotic communities including Opisthokonta, Sar, and Chlorophyta were dominated by stochastic processes. The significance of HoS within prokaryotic communities was also found to exhibit a decreasing trend from the upstream sampling sites (Chiang Saen and Chiang Khan, Nong Khai) towards the downstream sites (Mukdahan, and Khong Chiam) of the Mekong River. The environmental gradients resulting from the site-specific variations and the gradual decrease in elevation along the river may have a potential influence on the role of HoS in community assembly. Crucial environmental factors that shape the phylogenetic structure within distinct bins of the core prokaryotic communities including water depth, temperature, chloride, sodium, and sulphate were identified, as inferred by their correlation with the beta Net Relatedness Index (betaNRI) during the wet season. Overall, these findings enhance understanding of the complex mechanisms governing the spatio-temporal dynamics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities in the Mekong River. Finally, insights gained from this study could provide information on further use of specific core bacteria as microbial-based bioindicators that are effective for the assessment and conservation of the Mekong River ecosystem.
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- Paopit Siriarchawatana
- Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand
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- Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand
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- Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand
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- Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand
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- Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand
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- Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand
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- National Energy Technology Center (ENTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand
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- Thailand Bioresource Research Center (TBRC), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathumthani, Thailand.
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Wang X, Liu Y, Qing C, Zeng J, Dong J, Xia P. Analysis of diversity and function of epiphytic bacterial communities associated with macrophytes using a metagenomic approach. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2024; 87:37. [PMID: 38286834 PMCID: PMC10824801 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-024-02346-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024]
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Epiphytic bacteria constitute a vital component of aquatic ecosystems, pivotal in regulating elemental cycling. Despite their significance, the diversity and functions of epiphytic bacterial communities adhering to various submerged macrophytes remain largely unexplored. In this study, we employed a metagenomic approach to investigate the diversity and function of epiphytic bacterial communities associated with six submerged macrophytes: Ceratophyllum demersum, Hydrilla verticillata, Myriophyllum verticillatum, Potamogeton lucens, Stuckenia pectinata, and Najas marina. The results revealed that the predominant epiphytic bacterial species for each plant type included Pseudomonas spp., Microbacterium spp., and Stenotrophomonas rhizophila. Multiple comparisons and linear discriminant analysis effect size indicated a significant divergence in the community composition of epiphytic bacteria among the six submerged macrophytes, with 0.3-1% of species uniquely identified. Epiphytic bacterial richness associated with S. pectinata significantly differed from that of both C. demersum and H. verticillata, although no significant differences were observed in diversity and evenness. Functionally, notable variations were observed in the relative abundances of genes associated with carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling within epiphytic bacterial communities on the submerged macrophyte hosts. Among these communities, H. verticillata exhibited enrichment in genes related to the 3-hydroxypropionate bicycle and nitrogen assimilation, translocation, and denitrification. Conversely, M. verticillatum showcased enrichment in genes linked to the reductive citric acid cycle (Arnon-Buchanan cycle), reductive pentose phosphate cycle (Calvin cycle), polyphosphate degradation, and organic nitrogen metabolism. In summary, our findings offer valuable insights into the diversity and function of epiphytic bacteria on submerged macrophyte leaves, shedding light on their roles in lake ecosystems.
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- Xin Wang
- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- Guizhou Caohai National Nature Reserve Management Committee, Weining, 55310, China
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- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institutie of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing, 210008, China
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- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- Guizhou Province Key Laboratory for Information System of Mountainous Areas and Protection of Ecological Environment, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550025, China.
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Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterial Communities in Tilapia Pond Systems and the Influencing Factors. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12073438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study investigated ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in water and surface sediments of three tilapia ponds and their relationship with differences in the ponds, monthly variations in the water, and the physico-chemical parameters. Samples were collected from ponds with different stocking densities, after which DNA was extracted, 16S rRNA genes were amplified, the Illumina high-throughput sequencing was performed, and then the Silva and FunGene databases were used to investigate the ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities. In total, 308,488 valid reads (144,931 in water and 163,517 in sediment) and 240 operational taxonomic units (207 in water and 225 in sediment) were obtained. Further analysis showed that the five genera of Nitrosospira, Nitrosococcus, Nitrosomonas, Proteobacteria_unclassified, and Nitrosomonadaceae_unclassified were distributed not only in the water, but also in surface sediments of all three ponds. Further, not only the abundance of these five genera, but also their diversities were affected by monthly variations in the water and by sediment differences among the ponds. Moreover, the total nitrogen (TN), nitrate, total phosphorus (TP), and sulphate were the main factors influencing the ammonia-oxidizing bacterial communities in the water, whereas TP was the main influencing factor in the sediments. Moreover, the parameter changes, especially those caused by differences in the ponds, were closely related to the cultivation management (stocking density and feed coefficients).
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Manirakiza B, Zhang S, Addo FG, Isabwe A, Nsabimana A. Exploring microbial diversity and ecological function of epiphytic and surface sediment biofilm communities in a shallow tropical lake. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 808:151821. [PMID: 34808175 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 11/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Microbial communities in epiphytic biofilms and surface sediments play a vital role in the biogeochemical cycles of the major chemical elements in freshwater. However, little is known about the diversity, composition, and ecological functions of microbial communities in shallow tropical lakes dominated by aquatic macrophytes. In this study, epiphytic bacterial and eukaryotic biofilm communities on submerged and floating macrophytes and surface sediments were investigated in Lake Rumira, Rwanda in August and November 2019. High-throughput sequencing data revealed that members of the phyla, including Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, Bacteriodetes, Verrumicrobia, and Myxomycota, dominated bacterial communities, while the microeukaryotic communities were dominated by Unclassified (uncl) SAR(Stramenopiles, Alveolata, Rhizaria), Rotifers, Ascomycota, Gastrotricha, Platyhelminthes, Chloroplastida, and Arthropoda. Interestingly, the eukaryotic OTUs (operational taxonomic units) number and Shannon indices were significantly higher in sediments and epiphytic biofilms on Eicchornia crassipes than Ceratophyllum demersum (p < 0.05), while no differences were observed in bacterial OTUs number and Shannon values among substrates. Redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), total nitrogen (TN), and electrical conductivity (EC) were the most important abiotic factors closely related to the microbial community on C. demersum and E. crassipes. Furthermore, co-occurrence networks analysis (|r| > 0.7, p < 0.05) and functional prediction revealed more complex interactions among microbes on C. demersum than on E. crassipes and sediments, and those interactions include cross-feeding, parasitism, symbiosis, and predatism among organisms in biofilms. These results suggested that substrate-type and environmental factors were the strong driving forces of microbial diversity in epiphytic biofilms and surface sediments, thus shedding new insights into microbial community diversity in epiphytic biofilms and surface sediments and its ecological role in tropical lacustrine ecosystems.
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- Benjamin Manirakiza
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; University of Rwanda (UR), College of Science and Technology (CST), Department of Biology, P.O. Box 3900, Kigali, Rwanda
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- University of Rwanda (UR), College of Science and Technology (CST), Department of Biology, P.O. Box 3900, Kigali, Rwanda
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Tamminen M, Spaak J, Tlili A, Eggen R, Stamm C, Räsänen K. Wastewater constituents impact biofilm microbial community in receiving streams. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 807:151080. [PMID: 34678363 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Microbial life in natural biofilms is dominated by prokaryotes and microscopic eukaryotes living in dense association. In stream ecosystems, microbial biofilms influence primary production, elemental cycles, food web interactions as well as water quality. Understanding how biofilm communities respond to anthropogenic impacts, such as wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent, is important given the key role of biofilms in stream ecosystem function. Here, we implemented 16S and 18S rRNA gene sequencing of stream biofilms upstream (US) and downstream (DS) of WWTP effluents in four Swiss streams to test how bacterial and eukaryotic communities respond to wastewater constituents. Stream biofilm composition was strongly affected by geographic location - particularly for bacteria. However, the abundance of certain microbial community members was related to micropollutants in the wastewater - among bacteria, micropollutant-associated members were found e.g. in Alphaproteobacteria, and among eukaryotes e.g. in Bacillariophyta (algal diatoms). This study corroborates several previously characterized responses (e.g. as seen in diatoms), but also reveals previously unknown community responses - such as seen in Alphaproteobacteria. This study advances our understanding of the ecological impact of the current wastewater treatment practices and provides information about potential new marker organisms to assess ecological change in stream biofilms.
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- Manu Tamminen
- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland.
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Toxicology, Eawag, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Toxicology, Eawag, Switzerland; Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Switzerland; Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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Guo K, Wu N, Li W, Baattrup-Pedersen A, Riis T. Microbial biofilm community dynamics in five lowland streams. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 798:149169. [PMID: 34329932 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Stream biofilms are complex aggregates of diverse organism groups that play a vital role in global carbon and nitrogen cycles. Most of the current studies on stream biofilm focus on a limited number of organism groups (e.g., bacteria and algae), and few have included both prokaryote and eukaryote communities simultaneously. In this study, we incubated artificial substrates in five Danish lowland streams exhibiting different hydrological and physico-chemical conditions and explored the dynamics of community composition and diversity of the benthic biofilm, including both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. We found that few phyla in the prokaryote (Gammaproteobacteria and Bacteroidetes) and eukaryote (Cercozoa) communities accounted for over two-thirds of the total abundance at most of the sites. Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity displayed the same temporal patterns, i.e., diversity peaked in July and January. We also found that hydrological and physico-chemical variables significantly explained the variation in the community composition at phylum level for both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. However, a large proportion of variation remained unexplained, which can be ascribed to important but unmeasured variables like light intensity and biological factors such as trophic and non-trophic interactions as revealed by network analysis. Therefore, we suggest that use of a multitrophic level perspective is needed to study biofilm i.e., the "microbial jungles", where high occurrences of trophic and non-trophic interactions are expected.
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- Kun Guo
- Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ole Worms Allé 1, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark; School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, 200241 Shanghai, China
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- Department of Geography and Spatial Information Techniques, Center for Land and Marine Spatial Utilization and Governance Research, Ningbo University, 315211 Ningbo, China.
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- Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, 59717 Bozeman, MT, United States
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- Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ole Worms Allé 1, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark; WATEC, Aarhus University, Centre for Water Technology, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Mu X, Lv X, Liu W, Qiu C, Ma Y, Zhang S, Jeppesen E. Biofilms attached to Myriophyllum spicatum play a dominant role in nitrogen removal in constructed wetland mesocosms with submersed macrophytes: Evidence from 15N tracking, nitrogen budgets and metagenomics analyses. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2020; 266:115203. [PMID: 32711247 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Revised: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The mechanisms behind nitrogen removal by the submersed macrophyte-biofilm complex in wetlands remain to be fully elucidated. This study investigated the role of Myriophyllum spicatum and the biofilm on their leaves in nitrogen removal in mesocosm experiments. 15N tracking showed that 61.9% and 30% of the 15N, respectively, was removed from the system and assimilated by the macrophyte-biofilm complex after loading with 5.4 mg L-115N labelled NH4+ for 17 days. Nitrogen budget results showed that about 0.2%, 0.2% and 3.6% of the nitrogen were emitted as water-, HCl- and NaOH-soluble nitrogen-gas species, respectively. Bacteria (76.7-91.8%) were the predominant domain in all samples, followed by eukaryotes (8.0-23.0%), archaea and viruses. Network analyses showed that there were positive- and negative-correlative relationships among nitrogen-cycling genes and nitrifiers and denitrifiers. Our data highlight the important role of biofilm on submersed macrophytes for nitrogen removal.
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- Xiaoying Mu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, PR China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, PR China
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, PR China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, PR China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Regulation and Resource Development on Shallow Lakes, College of Environment, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, PR China.
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark; Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research, Beijing, 100049, PR China; Limnology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Ecosystem Research and Implementation, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Xia P, Yan D, Sun R, Song X, Lin T, Yi Y. Community composition and correlations between bacteria and algae within epiphytic biofilms on submerged macrophytes in a plateau lake, southwest China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 727:138398. [PMID: 32335447 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Epiphytic biofilms are complex matrix-enclosed communities comprising large numbers of bacteria and algae, which play an important role in the biogeochemical cycles in aquatic systems. However, little is known about the correlations that occur between these communities or the relative impact of environmental factors on their composition. In this study, epiphytic biofilms on three different aquatic plants were sampled in a typical plateau lake (Caohai, southwest China) in July and November of 2018. Bacterial diversity was assessed using Miseq sequencing approaches and algal communities were assessed using light microscopy. Gammaproteobacteria (54.64%), Bacteroidetes (17.50%) and Firmicutes (13.99%) were the dominant bacterial taxa and Chlorophyta (47.62%), Bacillariophyta (28.57%) and Euglenophyta (19.05%) were the dominant algae. The alpha diversity values of the epiphytic bacterial and algal communities were greater during the macrophyte decline period (November) than during the growth period (July). Microbial community composition was significantly affected by abiotic factors (water temperature, NH4+, pH or TP) and biotic factors (algae or bacteria). Interestingly, in July and November, the epiphytic algal community dissimilarity was stronger than that observed for bacterial community dissimilarity, suggesting that bacterial community dissimilarity may increase more slowly with environmental change than algal community dissimilarity. Furthermore, association network analysis revealed complex correlations between algal biomass and bacteria phylotype, and that 67.83% of correlations were positive and 32.17% were negative. This may indicate that facilitative correlations between algae and bacteria are predominant in epiphytic biofilms. These results provide new information on algal-bacterial correlations as well as the possible mechanisms that drive variations in the microbial community in epiphytic biofilms in freshwater lakes.
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- Pinhua Xia
- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Material, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China; The State Key Laboratory of Southwest Karst Mountain Biodiversity Conservation of Forestry and Grassland Administration, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550001, PR China.
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Ren Z, Niu D, Ma P, Wang Y, Wang Z, Fu H, Elser JJ. Bacterial Communities in Stream Biofilms in a Degrading Grassland Watershed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1021. [PMID: 32582054 PMCID: PMC7290132 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Grassland is among the largest terrestrial biomes and is experiencing serious degradation, especially on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). However, the influences of grassland degradation on microbial communities in stream biofilms are largely unknown. Using 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we investigated the bacterial communities in stream biofilms in sub-basins with different grassland status in the Qinghai Lake watershed. Grassland status in the sub-basins was quantified using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Cyanobacteria, and Verrucomicrobia were the dominant bacterial phyla. OTUs, 7,050, were detected in total, within which 19 were abundant taxa, and 6,922 were rare taxa. Chao 1, the number of observed OTUs, and phylogenetic diversity had positive correlations with carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and/or phosphorus (P) in biofilms per se. The variation of bacterial communities in stream biofilms was closely associated with the rate of change in NDVI, pH, conductivity, as well as C, N, P, contents and C:N ratio of the biofilms. Abundant subcommunities were more influenced by environmental variables relative to the whole community and to rare subcommunities. These results suggest that the history of grassland degradation (indicated as the rate of change in NDVI) influences bacterial communities in stream biofilms. Moreover, the bacterial community network showed high modularity with five major modules (>50 nodes) that responded differently to environmental variables. According to the module structure, only one module connector and 12 module hubs were identified, suggesting high fragmentation of the network and considerable independence of the modules. Most of the keystone taxa were rare taxa, consistent with fragmentation of the network and with adverse consequences for bacterial community integrity and function in the biofilms. By documenting the properties of bacterial communities in stream biofilms in a degrading grassland watershed, our study adds to our knowledge of the potential influences of grassland degradation on aquatic ecosystems.
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- Ze Ren
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Engineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of Education, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.,Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT, United States.,Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States.,Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Engineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of Education, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Engineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of Education, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Engineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of Education, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Engineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of Education, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Engineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of Education, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT, United States.,Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
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Dai Y, Hein T, Preiner S, Reitsema RE, Schoelynck J. Influence of water temperature and water depth on macrophyte-bacterioplankton interaction in a groundwater-fed river. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:13166-13179. [PMID: 32016867 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-07921-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Biotic interactions shape the community structure and function of ecosystems and thus play an important role in ecosystem management and restoration. To investigate how water temperature (related to the season) and water depth (related to spatial patterns of river morphology) affect macrophyte-bacterioplankton interactions in a groundwater-fed river, we conducted the structural equation modeling on datasets grouped by hydrological conditions. In addition to direct effects on macrophyte growth and/or bacterioplankton development, water temperature and water depth could both regulate the role of different nutrients (inorganic and organic) on affecting these biological indicators. Deeper water depth intensified the positive relationship between macrophytes and bacterioplankton, while higher temperature switched the relationship from being positive to negative. Our study provides empirical evidences that abiotic variables, even with relatively low fluctuations, play a critical role in regulating the patterns and strengths of interaction between macrophytes and bacterioplankton.
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- Yanran Dai
- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China.
- WasserCluster Lunz (WCL), Inter-university Research Institute, Lunz am See, Austria.
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- WasserCluster Lunz (WCL), Inter-university Research Institute, Lunz am See, Austria
- Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resource and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- WasserCluster Lunz (WCL), Inter-university Research Institute, Lunz am See, Austria
- Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resource and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, 9 Universiteitsplein 1C, B-2610, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, 9 Universiteitsplein 1C, B-2610, Wilrijk, Belgium
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Liu Y, Ren Z, Qu X, Zhang M, Yu Y, Zhang Y, Peng W. Microbial community structure and functional properties in permanently and seasonally flooded areas in Poyang Lake. Sci Rep 2020; 10:4819. [PMID: 32179796 PMCID: PMC7076011 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61569-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Water level fluctuations are an inherent feature regulating the ecological structures and functions of lakes. It is vital to understand the effects of water level fluctuations on bacterial communities and metabolic characteristics in freshwater lakes in a changing world. However, information on the microbial community structure and functional properties in permanently and seasonally flooded areas are lacking. Poyang Lake is a typical seasonal lake linked to the Yangtze River and is significantly affected by water level fluctuations. Bottom water was collected from 12 sampling sites: seven inundated for the whole year (inundated areas) and five drained during the dry season (emerged areas). High-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing was used to identify the bacterial communities. The results showed that the taxonomic structure and potential functions of the bacterial communities were significantly different between the inundated and emerged areas. Cyanobacteria was dominant in both areas, but the relative abundance of Cyanobacteria was much higher in the emerged areas than in the inundated areas. Bacterial communities were taxonomically sensitive in the inundated areas and functionally sensitive in the emerged areas. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon concentrations and their ratios, as well as dissolved oxygen, played important roles in promoting the bacterial taxonomic and functional compositional patterns in both areas. According to the metabolic predictions based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, the relative abundance of functional genes related to assimilatory nitrate reduction in the emerged areas was higher than in the inundated areas, and the relative abundance of functional genes related to dissimilatory nitrate reduction in the inundated areas was higher. These differences might have been caused by the nitrogen differences between the permanently and seasonally flooded areas caused by intra-annual water level fluctuations. The relative abundance of functional genes associated with denitrification was not significantly different in the inundated and emerged areas. This study improved our knowledge of bacterial community structure and nitrogen metabolic processes in permanently and seasonally flooded areas caused by water level fluctuations in a seasonal lake.
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- Yang Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
- Department of Water Environment, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
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- Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, 519085, China.
- Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT, 59860, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China.
- Department of Water Environment, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
- Department of Water Environment, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
- Department of Water Environment, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
- Department of Water Environment, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
- Department of Water Environment, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China
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Impact of Nutrient and Stoichiometry Gradients on Microbial Assemblages in Erhai Lake and Its Input Streams. WATER 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/w11081711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Networks of lakes and streams are linked by downslope flows of material and energy within catchments. Understanding how bacterial assemblages are associated with nutrients and stoichiometric gradients in lakes and streams is essential for understanding biogeochemical cycling in freshwater ecosystems. In this study, we conducted field sampling of bacterial communities from lake water and stream biofilms in Erhai Lake watershed. We determined bacterial communities using high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing and explored the relationship between bacterial composition and environmental factors using networking analysis, canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), and variation partitioning analysis (VPA). Physicochemical parameters, nutrients, and nutrient ratios gradients between the lake and the streams were strongly associated with the differences in community composition and the dominant taxa. Cyanobacteria dominated in Erhai Lake, while Proteobacteria dominated in streams. The stream bacterial network was more stable with multiple stressors, including physicochemical-factors and nutrient-factors, while the lake bacterial network was more fragile and susceptible to human activities with dominant nutrients (phosphorus). Negative correlations between bacterial communities and soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) as well as positive correlations between bacterial communities and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the network indicated these factors had strong effect on bacterial succession. Erhai Lake is in a eutrophic state, and high relative abundances of Synechococcus (40.62%) and Microcystis (16.2%) were noted during the course of our study. CCA indicated that nutrients (phosphorus) were key parameters driving Cyanobacteria-dominated community structure. By classifying the environmental factors into five categories, VPA analyses identified that P-factor (total phosphorus (TP) and SRP) as well as the synergistic effect of C-factor (DOC), N-factor (NO3−), and P-factor (TP and SRP) played a central role in structuring the bacterial communities in Erhai Lake. Heterogeneous physicochemical conditions explained the variations in bacterial assemblages in streams. This study provides a picture of stream–lake linkages from the perspective of bacterial community structure as well as key factors driving bacterial assemblages within lakes and streams at the whole watershed scale. We further argue that better management of phosphorus on the watershed scale is needed for ameliorating eutrophication of Erhai Lake.
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Effect of River Ecological Restoration on Biofilm Microbial Community Composition. WATER 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/w11061244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Across the world, there have been increasing attempts to restore good ecological condition to degraded rivers through habitat restoration. Microbial communities developing as biofilms play an important role in river ecosystem functioning by driving organic matter decomposition and ecosystem respiration. However, little is known about the structure and function of microbial communities in riverine systems and how these change when habitat restoration is implemented. Here, we compared the biofilm bacterial community composition using 16S rRNA genes targeted high-throughput Illumina Miseq sequencing in three river types, degraded urban rivers, urban rivers undergoing habitat restoration and forested rivers (our reference conditions). We aimed to determine: (i) the biofilm bacterial community composition affected by habitat restoration (ii) the difference in bacterial diversity in restored rivers, and (iii) correlations between environmental variables and bacterial community composition. The results showed that both water quality and biofilm bacterial community structure were changed by habitat restoration. In rivers where habitat had been restored, there was an increase in dissolved oxygen, a reduction in organic pollutants, a reduction in bacterial diversity and a related developing pattern of microbial communities, which is moving towards that of the reference conditions (forested rivers). River habitat management stimulated the processing of organic pollutants through the variation in microbial community composition, however, a big difference in bacterial structure still existed between the restored rivers and the reference forest rivers. Thus, habitat restoration is an efficient way of modifying the biofilm microbial community composition for sustainable freshwater management. It will, however, take a much longer time for degraded rivers to attain a similar ecosystem quality as the “pristine” forest sites than the seven years of restoration studied here.
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Zhang W, Wang H, Zhang J, Chen J, Shen H, Xie P. Habitat species pools shape algal and bacterial communities and their correlations. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2019; 11:275-286. [PMID: 30924315 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2018] [Revised: 03/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Understanding of community ecology is scale dependent. When the scale definition changes from subjectively defined "regional species pools" to "habitat species pools", heterogeneity differences occur for microbial communities. However, given the environmental gradients differences among habitats, responses of other organisms and interspecific correlations to habitat species pools may also be heterogeneous. This hypothesis is supported by our research about algal and bacterial communities among four different habitats in littoral zones. In our results, both the algal and bacterial community compositions varied along habitat species pools. Furthermore, at community level, significant correlation was only found between bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in pelagic habitat. And at individual level, the covariant trends between habitat generalists in algal and bacterial communities varied among habitats. Our results indicated that habitat-specific patterns can not only influence the habitat species pools, but also shape the interspecies interaction, and this should be considered in the further study of algae-bacterial correlation.
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- Weizhen Zhang
- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China
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Zancarini A, Echenique-Subiabre I, Debroas D, Taïb N, Quiblier C, Humbert JF. Deciphering biodiversity and interactions between bacteria and microeukaryotes within epilithic biofilms from the Loue River, France. Sci Rep 2017; 7:4344. [PMID: 28659582 PMCID: PMC5489527 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04016-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Epilithic river biofilms are complex matrix-enclosed communities harboring a great diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms. Interactions between these communities and the relative impacts of environmental factors on their compositions are poorly understood. In this study, we assessed the spatio-temporal variation in the diversity and composition of bacterial and microeukaryotic communities within biofilms in a French river. Significant changes were found in the composition of these microbial communities over the sampling period and between the upstream and downstream stations. In addition, the beta diversity of the bacterial community tended to decrease along the river, mostly as a result of turnover. These changes could be caused by the different water temperatures and geological and hydrological river contexts at the sampling sites (from karst landscape to river plain). Finally, our network analysis showed multiple correlations among dominant OTUs. Among them, negative correlations between Rhodobacteraceae and two other dominant groups of photosynthetic microorganisms (cyanobacteria and diatoms) were particularly interesting, which raises the question of what environmental factors trigger the changes occurring in benthic microbial photosynthetic communities.
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- Anouk Zancarini
- iEES Paris, UMR UPMC-CNRS-IRD-INRA-Univ. Paris, 7-UPEC, Paris, France
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- iEES Paris, UMR UPMC-CNRS-IRD-INRA-Univ. Paris, 7-UPEC, Paris, France.,Unité Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Microorganismes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire "Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement", Clermont Université, Clermont-Ferrand, France.,Laboratoire "Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement", CNRS, Aubière, France
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- Laboratoire "Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement", CNRS, Aubière, France
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- Unité Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Microorganismes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France.,Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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