陆源排污对邻近海域底栖海藻群落的影响

The impact of nutrient inputs from sewage effluents on the adjacent intertidal seaweed communities

伴随着经济的发展,我国沿海海域富营养化日趋严重。为了明确富营养化对底栖海藻群落的影响及作用机制,本文选择了与大连凌水河口(污水河)毗邻的海藻床作为野外观测点,研究底栖海藻群落对营养盐自然衰减梯度的响应规律;在实验室内,选择了在排污口附近优势分布、营r-生态策略的绿藻缘管浒苔和仅在寡营养区域分布、营k-生态策略的红藻柔质仙菜作为实验材料,开展了营养吸收动力学和生长动力学研究。通过二者在营养盐吸收、利用和繁殖策略方面的比较研究,剖析了底栖海藻群落对不同营养环境的响应机制。结果显示:随着海水中营养盐浓度的降低,底栖海藻群落呈现种类数增加、优势种覆盖度降低的趋势。根据底栖海藻在群落水平对氮源营养的响应,认为现行海水水质标准中无机氮一类水质标准的限值应该由目前的14.29μmol/L降低为6.69μmol/L。在富营养环境中,营养盐浓度的上升促进了r-策略海藻幼体的竞争力和种群繁殖力,使其占据了大量的生态位,形成优势种群,导致底栖海藻多样性较低;在寡营养环境中,由于得不到充足的营养盐供应,r-策略海藻幼体的竞争力和种群繁殖力都受到制约,占据的空间生态位有限,为其他种类的生存提供了条件,而那些对营养盐需求较低但利用效率高的k-策略海藻则表现出更强的竞争力,在竞争中取得优势,能快速突破早期环境筛的限制,形成成体,因此,在寡营养海域,底栖海藻的多样性比较丰富。

Nutrient enrichment, followed by economic development, has already had a significant impact on the costal ecosystem of China. Field investigations on seaweed beds adjacent to Lingshui River in Dalian were conducted in present studies to elucidate the response of the seaweed communities to the sewage effluents along a natural nutrient gradient. Further, the studies were conducted in the laboratory on the uptake and growth kinetics of NO3 –, NH4 + and PO4 3– of the clone of Enteromorpha linza, r-strategic green alga dominating in the nutrient-rich estuaries, and Ceramium tenerrimum, k-strategic red alga distributing in the oligotrophic areas. Comparative analyses were carried out on the absorption and utilization of nutrient, and reproduction strategies of the two species to explain the responses of seaweed communities to different nutrient environments. The results show that with the decrease of environmental nutrients, species number of seaweed increases, and the coverage of dominant species decreases. According to the response of seaweed communities to nitrogen nutrient, it is considered that the threshold of category I of inorganic nitrogen in the current seawater quality standard should be revised from the current 14.29 μmol/L to 6.69 μmol/L. In a nutrient-rich area, increasing nutrient concentration promotes the competitiveness and fertility of shoots of r-strategic seaweeds, which makes them occupy a large number of space niches and form dominant populations, resulting in decreasing of the diversity of seaweed communities. However, in the oligotrophic environment, r-strategic algae is limited in the fertility of shoots, occupying only small amount of space niche, while those k-strategic algae with high efficiency in nutrient utilization shows greater competitiveness and could quickly break through early environmental sieves and grow into adults, which contributes to the rich diversity of seaweed communities.