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WATER RESEARCH
卷 149, 期 -, 页码 342-350出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.11.022
关键词
Viruses; Phytoplankton; Cyanobacteria; Flow cytometry; Occurrence
资金
- Singapore National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme (E2S2-CREATE project CS-B)
- Singapore National Research Foundation under its Environment and Water Research Programme [1301-IRIS-37 [IDD 90301/1/65]]
- National University of Singapore
- PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency
This study aimed to examine the drivers in shaping the occurrence and distribution of total viruses and picoplankton in tropical freshwater ecosystems. Flow cytometry was used to quantify the concentrations of total viruses, picoheterotrophs, picophytoplankton, and picocyanobacteria. Three land use patterns (urban-, agriculture- and parkland-dominated) were evaluated using ArcGIS. Significant correlations were observed between water-borne microbial targets and water quality parameters (0.175 <= vertical bar r vertical bar <= 0.441), nutrients (0.250 <= r <= 0.570) and land use factors (0.200 <= vertical bar r vertical bar <= 0.460). In particular, the concentrations of total viruses and picoheterotrophic cells were higher in catchments whereas the abundances of picophytoplankton and picocyanobacteria were higher in reservoirs. Total viruses and picoplankton had higher concentrations in urban- and agriculture-dominated areas, probably due to anthropogenic inputs and agricultural inputs, respectively. Although surface water is a complex matrix influenced by niche based (i.e., physicochemical properties, nutrients, land use impact etc.) and neutral-based factors (i.e., ecological drift, dispersal and species), land use patterns could help to elucidate the occurrence and distribution of the total microbial community at the macroscopic level. Meanwhile, inter-correlations among viruses, picoplankton and picoheterotrophs (0.715 <= r <= 0.990) also substantiates their mutual interactions in influencing the microbial community. Furthermore, the relationships between total microbial cells and bacterial and viral indicators were also investigated. Concentrations of total viruses, picoplankton and picoheterotrophs were positively correlated with bacterial indicators (0.427 <= r <= 0.590) and viral indicators (0.201 <= r <= 0.563). These results indicated that faecal and viral contamination could contribute to the numbers of total viruses and bacteria. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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