Tidal water exchanges can shape the phytoplankton community structure and reduce the risk of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a semi-closed lake

Wenxu ZHENG; Renhui LI; Wenli QIN; Binbin CHEN; Min WANG; Wanchun GUAN; Xiaoling ZHANG; Qiao YANG; Min ZHAO; Zengling MA

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Tidal water exchanges can shape the phytoplankton community structure and reduce the risk of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a semi-closed lake

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- Tidal water exchanges can shape the phytoplankton community structure and reduce the risk of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a semi-closed lake
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 40, Issue 5, Pages: 1868-1880(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Subtropical Water Environment and Marine Biological Resources Protection, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
  2.National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Ecological Treatment Technology for Urban Water Pollution, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China
  3.Department of Marine Biotechnology, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China
  4.Marine Science and Technology College, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
  5.School of Petrochemical Engineering and Environment, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
- Author bio：
  
  Min ZHAO,zhaomin-zmcn@tom.com
  Zengling MA,mazengling@wzu.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-022-2032-2
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- Received：24 January 2022，
  
  Accepted：23 March 2022，
  
  Online First：02 April 2022，
  
  Published：2022-09
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Wenxu ZHENG, Renhui LI, Wenli QIN, et al. Tidal water exchanges can shape the phytoplankton community structure and reduce the risk of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a semi-closed lake[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(5): 1868-1880.
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Wenxu ZHENG, Renhui LI, Wenli QIN, et al. Tidal water exchanges can shape the phytoplankton community structure and reduce the risk of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a semi-closed lake[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(5): 1868-1880. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-022-2032-2.

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Abstract

For estuaries

inland lakes play a vital role in the ecological balance under the impact of tides. The effect of tides-induced water exchange on phytoplankton community in a semi-closed lake was studied and compared with that of an adjacent closed lake in the Oujiang River mouth in Zhejiang

East China Sea

from June 29

2020 to June 14

2021. Results show that the dominant species

abundance

dominance

and diversity of the phytoplankton species between the two lakes were significantly different. In the closed lake

cyanobacteria were the dominant species during the study period. However

in the semi-closed lake

the diversification of the dominant species was greater

and some species of diatoms and green algae became dominant. The average phytoplankton abundance in the closed lake was 6 times of that in the semi-closed lake. The average dominance of cyanobacteria in the closed lake was 0.96

and those in the semi-closed lake and the Oujiang River were 0.51 and 0.22

respectively. Cyanobacterial blooms occurred throughout the study time in the closed lake but not in the semi-closed one. Furthermore

the species diversity richness of the phytoplankton in the semi-closed lake was higher than that of the closed one

and the phytoplankton community between the closed lake and semi-closed lake could be divided into distinctly different groups based on non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis (NMDS) and analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) analysis. The salinity of the water was significantly greater and the transparency significantly smaller in the semi-closed lake than those in the closed lake. Therefore

water exchange driven by local tidal movement increased salinity and decreased transparency of water

which consequently shaped the community structures of different phytoplankton and reduced the risk of a cyanobacterial bloom outbreak in the semi-closed lake.

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