| Title: | Seasonal changes in phosphorus competition and allelopathy of a benthic microbial assembly facilitate prevention of cyanobacterial blooms |
| Author(s): | Wu Y; Wang F; Xiao X; Liu J; Wu C; Chen H; Kerr P; Shurin J; |
| Address: | "State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, China. Ocean College, Zhejiang University, 1 Zheda Road, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, 316000, China. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Donghu South Road, Wuhan, 430072, China. School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Boorooma St, Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2678, Australia. Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, University of California - San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, Dept 0116, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1462-2920 (Electronic) 1462-2912 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Interactions among microbes determine the prevalence of harmful algal blooms that threaten water quality. These interactions can be indirectly mediated by shared resources or consumers, or through interference by the production of allelochemicals. Allelopathic interactions and resource competition have been shown to occur among algae and associated microbes. However, little work has considered seasonal influences on ecosystem structure and function. Here, we report results of our investigations on seasonal changes in the interactions between benthic microbial assemblies and the bloom forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa. We show that phosphorus (P) competition and allelopathy by the microbial assembly vary seasonally and inhibit growth of M. aeruginosa. The interactions per unit biomass of the microbial assembly are stronger under winter than summer conditions and inhibit the recruitment of the cyanobacteria, thereby preventing the reoccurrence of cyanobacterial blooms in the following summer. The seasonality of these interactions correlates with changes in composition, metabolic activity and functional diversity of the microbial assembly. Our findings highlight the importance of competitive and allelopathic interactions in regulating the occurrence of harmful algal blooms. Our results also imply that seasonal variation of competition and allelopathy of the microbial assembly might be beneficial to adjust aquatic ecosystem structure and function" |
| Keywords: | Allelopathy/*physiology Biomass Ecosystem *Harmful Algal Bloom Microcystis/*growth & development/*metabolism Pheromones/biosynthesis Phosphorus/*metabolism Seasons; |
| Notes: | "MedlineWu, Yonghong Wang, Fengwu Xiao, Xi Liu, Junzhuo Wu, Chenxi Chen, Hong Kerr, Philip Shurin, Jonathan eng England 2017/05/04 Environ Microbiol. 2017 Jun; 19(6):2483-2494. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13781. Epub 2017 May 26" |
