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Effects of the Filter-Feeding Benthic Bivalve Corbicula fluminea on Plankton Community and Water Quality in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Mesocosm Study

by
Yuqin Rong
1,2,
Yali Tang
1,2,†,
Lijuan Ren
1,2,
William D Taylor
3,
Vladimir Razlutskij
4,
Luigi Naselli-Flores
5,
Zhengwen Liu
1,6,7,* and
Xiufeng Zhang
1,2,*
1
Department of Ecology and Institute of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
2
Engineering Research Center of Tropical and Subtropical Aquatic Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510632, China
3
Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
4
State Scientific and Production Amalgamation Scientific-Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Biological Resources, 220072 Minsk, Belarus
5
Department STEBICEF, University of Palermo, 90123 Palermo, Italy
6
Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), Beijing 100070, China
7
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
*
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†
The author contributed equally to this work.
Academic Editor: George Arhonditsis
Water 2021, 13(13), 1827; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13131827
Received: 3 June 2021 / Revised: 23 June 2021 / Accepted: 29 June 2021 / Published: 30 June 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystem-Based Understanding and Management of Eutrophication)
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The influence of filter-feeding bivalves on plankton communities, nutrients, and water quality in a given aquatic ecosystem is so profound that they can be considered ecosystem engineers. In a 70-day mesocosm experiment, we tested the hypothesis that Corbicula fluminea would change plankton community structure by reducing small zooplankton and large phytoplankton and improve water quality by reducing nutrients. We monitored levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, organic suspended solids (OSS), and light at the sediment surface. Within the plankton, phytoplankton biomass (as Chl a, >0.45 μm), the biomass of microphytoplankton (>20 μm), nanophytoplankton (2–20 μm), picophytoplankton (0.2–2 μm), and zooplankton were determined. Compared with the controls, C. fluminea reduced the abundance of rotifers and the biomass of phytoplankton, and picophytoplankton, thereby modifying the plankton community structure. We did not observe reductions in TN and TP concentration, but OSS concentrations were reduced, and light intensity at the sediment surface was increased as a result of the improved water transparency. Our research shows that colonization by C. fluminea may modify plankton community structure and improve water quality of eutrophic shallow lakes, shedding further light on the ecological roles of filter-feeding bivalves in aquatic ecosystems. View Full-Text
Keywords: Corbicula fluminea; phytoplankton; chlorophyll a; rotifers; cladocerans; water quality; aquatic ecosystem Corbicula fluminea; phytoplankton; chlorophyll a; rotifers; cladocerans; water quality; aquatic ecosystem
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Rong, Y.; Tang, Y.; Ren, L.; Taylor, W.D.; Razlutskij, V.; Naselli-Flores, L.; Liu, Z.; Zhang, X. Effects of the Filter-Feeding Benthic Bivalve Corbicula fluminea on Plankton Community and Water Quality in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Mesocosm Study. Water 2021, 13, 1827. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13131827

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Rong Y, Tang Y, Ren L, Taylor WD, Razlutskij V, Naselli-Flores L, Liu Z, Zhang X. Effects of the Filter-Feeding Benthic Bivalve Corbicula fluminea on Plankton Community and Water Quality in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Mesocosm Study. Water. 2021; 13(13):1827. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13131827

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Rong, Yuqin, Yali Tang, Lijuan Ren, William D. Taylor, Vladimir Razlutskij, Luigi Naselli-Flores, Zhengwen Liu, and Xiufeng Zhang. 2021. "Effects of the Filter-Feeding Benthic Bivalve Corbicula fluminea on Plankton Community and Water Quality in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Mesocosm Study" Water 13, no. 13: 1827. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13131827

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