Variations in environmental factors and their effects on biological characteristics of meromictic Lake Abashiri
Variations in environmental factors and their effects on biological characteristics of meromictic Lake Abashiri
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网走湖环境因子变化及其对生物特性的影响
DOI:
10.1007/s102010200011
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发表时间:
2002
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
J. Arisue
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作者:
H. Mikami;S. Hino;K. Sakata;J. Arisue
To clarify the variations in environmental factors and biological characteristics of eutrophic, brackish, meromictic Lake Abashiri, Japan, we studied long-term variations in concentrations of chloride and nutrients in lake water and characteristics of their supply. This lake has an anoxic layer containing much chloride, nutrients, and sulfide. Although a denseAnabaenabloom appeared in the lake every summer before 1986, the bloom did not appear after upwelling from the bottom layer (a blue tide) occurred in spring 1987. A dense layer of photosynthetic bacteria (Chlorobiumsp.) formed at the top of the anoxic layer from 1989 to May 1992. The concentrations of nutrients and chloride in the oxygenic layer were determined by the balance between nutrients from influent rivers, including dissolved inorganic nitrogen, and matter supplied from the anoxic layer, including chloride and dissolved inorganic phosphorus. These influences controlled the dominant phytoplankton species and their biomass. The appearance of anAnabaenabloom in Lake Abashiri is promoted by nitrogen limitation caused by decreased loading from influent rivers and/or by a stable supply of phosphorus from the anoxic layer (no formation of photosynthetic bacterial layer and small upwelling), but the appearance is inhibited by a high chloride ion concentration with large upwelling. The main reason for the formation of a photosynthetic bacterial layer from 1989 to May 1992 was that sunlight reached the top of the anoxic layer because of the increase in transparency due to inhibition of theAnabaenabloom with upwelling. The dense layer of photosynthetic bacteria blocked nutrient diffusion from the anoxic layer to the oxygenic layer by uptake, and decreased the biomass of phytoplankton in the oxygenic layer.