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- Title
Diversity and Vertical Distribution of Sedimentary Bacterial Communities and Its Association with Metal Bioavailability in Three Distinct Mangrove Reserves of South China.
- Authors
Hu, Bochao; Liao, Junxian; Zhang, Qijiong; Ding, Suli; He, Mengyuan; Qiao, Yue; Zhang, Zuye; Shang, Chenjing; Chen, Si
- Abstract
The structure of sedimentary bacterial communities in mangroves depends on environmental factors such as pH, salinity, organic matter content, and metal pollution. To investigate the effect of heavy metal pollution on such communities, core samples of sediments from four sites in three distinct mangrove reserves (Golden Bay Mangrove Reserve in Beihai, Guangxi province (GXJHW), Shankou Mangrove Reserve in Hepu, Guangxi province (GXSK), and MaiPo mangrove in Hong Kong (MPCT and MPFQ)) in South China were analyzed for physicochemical properties, multiple chemical forms of metals, and vertical bacterial diversity. Sedimentary bacterial communities varied greatly among the different sampling sites, with biodiversity decreasing in the order of GXSK, GXJHW, MPFQ, and MPCT. Proteobacteria was the dominant phylum, followed by Chloroflexi, across all four sampling sites. Multivariate statistical analysis of the effect of environmental factors on the sedimentary bacterial communities found that total carbon was the only physicochemical factor with a significant influence at all four sites. The correlations between environmental factors and bacterial structure were weak for the two sites in Guangxi province, but strong at MPCT in Hong Kong where environmental factors were almost all significantly negatively correlated with bacterial diversity. Variance partitioning analysis revealed that physicochemical properties and chemical forms of metals could explain most of the changes in bacterial diversity. Overall, we observed that heavy metal forms were more important than total metal content in influencing the sedimentary bacterial diversity in mangroves, consistent with the more bioavailable metal species having the greatest effect.
- Subjects
GUANGXI Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China); HONG Kong (China); MANGROVE plants; BACTERIAL communities; BACTERIAL diversity; HEAVY metal toxicology; MULTIVARIATE analysis; MANGROVE ecology; METALWORK; SEDIMENTARY structures
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 6, p971
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w14060971