Selection of photosynthetic traits by turbulent mixing governs formation of cyanobacterial blooms in shallow eutrophic lakes.

ABSTRACT: Prediction of the complex cyanobacteria-environment interactions is vital for understanding harmful bloom formation. Most previous studies on these interactions considered specific properties of cyanobacterial cells as representative for the entire population (e.g. growth rate, mortality, and photosynthetic capacity (Pmax)), and assumed that they remained spatiotemporally unchanged. Although, at the population level, the alteration of such traits can be driven by intraspecific competition, little is known about how traits and their plasticity change in response to environmental conditions and affect the bloom formation. Here we test the hypothesis that intraspecific variations in Pmax of cyanobacteria (Microcystis spp.) play an important role in its population dynamics. We coupled a one-di

SUBMITTER: Wu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10945370 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature