CAREER: Beyond N and P: How trace metal limitation influences stream ecosystem function

职业：超越 N 和 P：痕量金属限制如何影响河流生态系统功能

• 批准号: 1943182
• 负责人: David Costello
• 金额: $ 71.8万
• 依托单位: Kent State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1943182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Beyond; How; trace; metal

Algae covering the bed of stream ecosystems provide key food resources for invertebrates and fishes and can intercept pollutants. Algae grow rapidly when provided with light and a balanced supply of nutrients, and a lack of resources causes slow growth and inefficient filtering of pollutants. Algae require dozens of nutrients, but only two major nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) have been extensively studied in streams. Recent work in the ocean and large lakes has shown that trace metals are important for the growth of algae. This project will provide fundamental understanding of the role of trace metals in the growth of stream algae and explore the consequences of trace metal deficiencies on pollution filtering. This work will also provide experiences for high school and undergraduate students that promote key skills required of modern biology. Modern biology incorporates knowledge from many other scientific fields and this work’s study of trace metals provides an interdisciplinary approach that can be a model for developing scientists.This project will use experiments from the patch to stream scale to study the extent, cause, and consequences of trace metal deficiency for stream ecosystem structure and function. The project will answer three fundamental questions: (1) How often do trace metals influence algae growth in Great Lakes streams?, (2) How does changing the nutrient balance alter algal communities?, and (3) How does changing trace metal availability alter pollution filtering by algae? The study will use nutrient diffusing substrates (NDS) in 98 Great Lakes streams to identify locations and conditions where trace metals are influencing algae. Ensuing studies will measure algal communities and pollutant uptake rates under different trace metal conditions. Results at the patch scale will be confirmed at the whole stream scale with experiments in artificial channels and divided streams. The project will use NDS experiments in classrooms and laboratories to give high school and undergraduate students authentic research experiences. The researchers will work with the Kent State Upward Bound Math Science program to introduce high school students to interdisciplinary science and provide them with authentic, place-based research experiences in their local streams.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

覆盖河流生态系统河床的藻类为无脊椎动物和鱼类提供了关键的食物资源，并可以拦截污染物。藻类在有光照和均衡营养供应的情况下生长迅速，缺乏资源会导致生长缓慢和污染物过滤效率低下。藻类需要几十种营养物质，但只有两种主要的营养物质（氮和磷）在溪流中得到了广泛的研究。最近在海洋和大型湖泊中的研究表明，微量金属对藻类的生长很重要。本项目将提供对微量金属在溪流藻类生长中的作用的基本认识，并探讨微量金属缺乏对污染过滤的影响。这项工作还将为高中和本科生提供经验，促进现代生物学所需的关键技能。现代生物学融合了许多其他科学领域的知识，这项工作的微量金属的研究提供了一个跨学科的方法，可以成为一个模式，发展科学家。本项目将使用从补丁到流规模的实验，研究微量金属缺乏的程度，原因和后果的河流生态系统的结构和功能。该项目将回答三个基本问题：（1）痕量金属多久影响五大湖溪流中的藻类生长？，(2)改变营养平衡如何改变藻类群落？以及（3）改变微量金属的有效性如何改变藻类的污染过滤？这项研究将使用营养扩散基质（NDS）在98个五大湖流，以确定微量金属影响藻类的位置和条件。随后的研究将测量不同微量金属条件下的藻类群落和污染物吸收率。在斑块规模的结果将在整个流规模的人工渠道和分流实验确认。该项目将在教室和实验室中使用NDS实验，为高中和本科生提供真实的研究体验。研究人员将与肯特州立大学的数学科学项目合作，向高中生介绍跨学科科学，并为他们提供真实的、基于当地的研究经验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Trace metal–macronutrient colimitation of algal biofilms in streams with differing ambient inorganic nutrients

具有不同环境无机养分的溪流中藻类生物膜的痕量金属与常量养分共同限制

• DOI: 10.1086/726684
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Freshwater Science
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Fitzgibbon, Andrea S.;Costello, David M.
• 通讯作者: Costello, David M.