Journal
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY
Volume 93, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix035
Keywords
Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii; climate variables; ecotypes; geographical distribution; lakes
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- National Science Center in Poland [UMO-2012/07/B/NZ8/03991, UMO-2014/15/B/NZ9/04727]
- [UMO-2012/05/B/ST10/00295]
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Mechanisms behind expansion of an invasive cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii have not been fully resolved, and different hypotheses, such as global warming, are suggested. In the East-Central Europe, it is widely occurring in western part of Poland but only in single locations in the East due to some limiting factors. Therefore, broad-scale phytoplankton survey including 117 randomly selected lakes in Poland and Lithuania was conducted. The results showed that C. raciborskii occurred widely in western part of Poland but was absent from other regions and Lithuania except one lake. The regions in which C. raciborskii was present had higher annual mean air temperature, higher maximum air temperature of the warmest month and higher minimum temperature of the coldest month, demonstrating that average air temperature, and indirectly, the duration of growing season might be more important factor driving C. raciborskii distribution than measured in situ water temperature. In turn, the presence of C. raciborskii in single localities may be more related to physiological adaptations of separated ecotype. Collectively, these results provide novel evidence on the influence of temperature on C. raciborskii distribution in East-European regions but also indicate high ecological plasticity of this species.
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