Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 319, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115678
Keywords
Homogenization; Patterns of microbial communities; Stochastic processes; Water quality; Water transfer project
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51979241, 51622901]
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The study using river and impounded lakes from the eastern route of South-to-North Water Transfer project as a model system revealed improved water quality during the water transfer period, reversed latitudinal pattern of bacterioplankton, decrease in spatial heterogeneity of bacterial communities during the water transfer period, and higher migration rate of bacterial communities during the water transfer period.
Revealing the patterns and their mechanisms of microbial community in water transfer projects, especially in inter-basin water transfer projects, is the premise of biohazard warning, water quality monitoring and sustainable management of water resources. Using a river and impounded lakes from the eastern route of South-toNorth Water Transfer project as a model system, we studied the diversity and assembly patterns of bacterial communities in artificially connected ecosystems and their influencing factors. Our results showed that water quality improved during the water transfer period (WTP). Further, the latitudinal pattern of bacterioplankton was reversed, which was mainly due to the change of evenness caused by water transfer and had no significant correlation with water quality parameters. Importantly, the spatial heterogeneity of the bacterial communities decreased during the WTP, and the differences in the communities between the impounded lakes and river was more significant in the non-water transfer period (NWTP) than in the WTP, which was the result of water transfer and water quality. Overall, bacterial community was largely shaped by stochastic processes. The bacterial communities had a higher migration rate during the WTP than during the NWTP. We believe that the water transfer increased the risk of biological homogenization while improving water quality. Combined, our work systematically discusses the microbial community pattern and mechanism in the inter-basin water transfer project, providing theoretical support for inter-basin water transfer project planning management and ecological environment protection.
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