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Bacterial Communities and Enzymatic Activities in Sediments of Long-Term Fish and Crab Aquaculture Ponds

Journal

MICROORGANISMS
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9030501

Keywords

aquaculture practices; pond sediments; bacterial community; hydrolytic enzymes

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD0900701]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41877381, 41573110]
  3. Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment [2017ZX07603]
  4. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology [2018YFD0900701, 2019FBZ01]

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Aquaculture is a crucial and rapidly growing agricultural sector globally, but it can have environmental impacts through nutrient accumulation in ponds. This study found that long-term farming practices of different aquatic animals can affect bacterial communities and enzyme activities in pond sediments. Grass carp ponds had lower nutrient contents in sediments and higher bacterial diversity compared to Chinese mitten crab ponds.
Aquaculture is among the most important and fastest growing agriculture sectors worldwide; however, it generates environmental impacts by introducing nutrient accumulations in ponds, which are possibly different and further result in complex biological processes in the sediments based on diverse farming practices. In this study, we investigated the effects of long-term farming practices of representative aquatic animals dominated by grass carp (GC, Ctenopharyngodon idella) or Chinese mitten crab (CMC, Eriocheir sinensis) on the bacterial community and enzyme activity of sediments from more than 15 years of aquaculture ponds, and the differences associated with sediment properties were explored in the two farming practices. Compared to CMC ponds, GC ponds had lower contents of TC, TN, and TP in sediments, and similar trends for sediment pH and moisture content. Sediment bacterial communities were significantly different between GC and CMC ponds, with higher bacterial richness and diversity in GC ponds. The bacterial communities among the pond sediments were closely associated with sediment pH, TC, and TN. Additionally, the results showed profoundly lower activities of beta-1,4-glucosidase, leucine aminopeptidase, and phosphatase in the sediments of GC ponds than CMC ponds. Pearson's correlation analysis further revealed strong positive correlations between the hydrolytic enzyme activities and nutrient concentrations among the aquaculture ponds, indicating microbial enzyme regulation response to sediment nutrient dynamics. Our study herein reveals that farming practices of fish and crab differently affect bacterial communities and enzymatic activities in pond sediments, suggesting nutrient-driven sediment biological processes in aquaculture ponds for different farming practices.

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