Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 191, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110194
Keywords
Bacterioplankton; Damming; Influence factor; Yarlung Tsangpo River; Lancang River
Funding
- Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [91647206]
- National Key Plan for Research and Development of China [2016YFC0502203]
- National Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of China [51421006]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51479065, 51579073]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [B200201057, B200204033]
- PAPD
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River damming has raised controversial concerns as it simultaneously contributes to socioeconomic development but may jeopardize aquatic ecology. Since bacterioplankton catalyze vital biogeochemical reactions and play important roles in aquatic ecosystems, more attention has been paid to their responses in dammed rivers. Here, a comparative study was conducted between single-dammed (the Yarlung Tsangpo River) and cascade-dammed (the Lancang River) rivers in Southwest China to investigate whether bacterioplankton respond equally to different river regulations. Our results showed that the decreased bacterioplankton abundance and the increased a-diversity always co-occurred in reservoirs of the Yarlung Tsangpo River and the Lancang River. However, the impact of damming on bacterioplankton abundance and a-diversity were resilient in the Lancang River, which can be attributed to the repeated alterations of environmental heterogeneity in cascade damming reaches. Meanwhile, a generalized additive model (GAM) was applied to identify the important drivers affecting bacterioplankton variation. The abundance was influenced by trophic conditions, such as dissolved silicon, while a-diversity was closely related to the microbial dispersal process, such as elevation and distance-from source. And it is also noted that the bacterioplankton dispersal process was interrupted in cascade damming reaches. In addition, based on their important drivers, variations in abundance and a-diversity were also predicted by GAM. As revealed by the quantitative mutual validation between the two rivers, abundance and alpha-diversity in the cascade-dammed river can be predicted by their response to single-dammed river, suggesting that the impact of cascade damming on bacterioplankton can be pre-assessed by referring to the single stage damming effect. Therefore, our study provides the first trial of quantitative evidence that bacterioplankton do not respond equally to different river regulations, and the impact of cascade damming on bacterioplankton can be predicted based on single stage damming effect, which can contribute to the protection of aquatic ecology in the cascade hydropower development.
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