Benthic Bacteria Community Changes in Responses to Different Organic Resources from Macrophyte- and Algae-Dominated Areas of Lake Taihu, China — Oak Academic Publishing
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Benthic Bacteria Community Changes in Responses to Different Organic Resources from Macrophyte- and Algae-Dominated Areas of Lake Taihu, China
Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
1 Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
2 Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
3 Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
4 Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
Carbon resources play an important role in affecting the benthic bacterial community in shallow lakes. In this study, pyrosequencing was applied to compare bacteria phylogenic profile in incubated sediments with normal and exchanged organic detritus in macrophyte-dominated East Lake Taihu and algal-dominated Meiliang Bay. We observed significant bacteria species variations in sediments from two bays, regardless of treatments. RDA (Redundancy Analysis) analysis showed that sediment characteristics, especially concentrations of total nitrogen might account for this differentiation. Besides, algal-dominated Meiliang Bay sediment with addition of Vallisneria detritus exhibited higher bacterial species variations than the sediment amended with Microcystis detritus. To the contrary, sediments from macrophyte-dominated East Lake Taihu shared similar bacteria profile at all taxonomic levels and grouped together in MDS (multidimensional scaling) plots over the treatments with Vallisneria or Microcystis detritus addition into the sediment. We speculated that the different degradability of macrophyte detritus and algal detritus led to varied bacterial responses to exchanged organic resources and ultimately, the amounts, nutrient availability and degradability of organic resources may be main reasons for benthic bacteria community structure differentiation between the two states in shallow lakes.
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