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Contrasting patterns of free-living bacterioplankton diversity in macrophyte-dominated versus phytoplankton blooming regimes in Dianchi Lake, a shallow lake in China

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Freshwater shallow lakes typically exhibit two alternative stable states under certain nutrient loadings: macrophyte-dominated and phytoplankton-dominated water regimes. An ecosystem regime shift from macrophytes to phytoplankton blooming typically reduces the number of species of invertebrates and fishes and results in the homogenization of communities in freshwater lakes. We investigated how microbial biodiversity has responded to a shift of the ecosystem regime in Dianchi Lake, which was previously fully covered with submerged macrophytes but currently harbors both ecological states. We observed marked divergence in the diversity and community composition of bacterioplankton between the two regimes. Although species richness, estimated as the number of operational taxonomic units and phylogenetic diversity (PD), was higher in the phytoplankton dominated ecosystem after this shift, the dissimilarity of bacterioplankton community across space decreased. This decrease in beta diversity was accompanied by loss of planktonic bacteria unique to the macrophyte-dominated ecosystem. Mantel tests between bacterioplankton community distances and Euclidian distance of environmental parameters indicated that this reduced bacterial community differentiation primarily reflected the loss of environmental niches, particularly in the macrophyte regime. The loss of this small-scale heterogeneity in bacterial communities should be considered when assessing long-term biodiversity changes in response to ecosystem regime conversions in freshwater lakes.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Min Pan from the Institute of Dianchi Lake Ecology for assistance with field sampling and the collection of original data for Lake Dianchi. The authors also thank Dr. Yu Shi and Dan He for assistance with the statistical analysis.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Yujing Wang  (王毓菁), Huabing Li  (李化炳), Peng Xing  (邢鹏) & Qinglong Wu  (吴庆龙)

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

    Yujing Wang  (王毓菁)

  3. Sino-Danish Center for Science and Education, Beijing, 100039, China

    Qinglong Wu  (吴庆龙)

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. U1202231, 31225004) and the National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (No. 31200383)

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Wang, Y., Li, H., Xing, P. et al. Contrasting patterns of free-living bacterioplankton diversity in macrophyte-dominated versus phytoplankton blooming regimes in Dianchi Lake, a shallow lake in China. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 35, 336–349 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-016-5277-9

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