Development of a Halotolerant Community in the St. Lucia Estuary (South Africa) during a Hypersaline Phase 英文参考文献.docVIP
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Development of a Halotolerant Community in the St. Lucia Estuary (South Africa) during a Hypersaline Phase 英文参考文献
DevelopmentofaHalotolerantCommunityintheSt.
LuciaEstuary(SouthAfrica)duringaHypersalinePhase
NicolaK.Carrasco*,RenzoPerissinotto
SchoolofBiologicalandConservationSciences,UniversityofKwaZulu-Natal,WestvilleCampus,Durban,SouthAfrica
Abstract
Background: The St. Lucia Estuary, Africa’s largest estuarine lake, is currently experiencing unprecedented freshwater
deprivationwhichhasresultedinanorthwardgradientofdroughteffects,withhypersalineconditionsinitsnorthernlakes.
Methodology/PrincipalFindings:ThisstudydocumentsthechangesthatoccurredinthebioticcommunitiesatFalseBay
fromMay2010toJune2011,inordertobetterunderstandecosystemfunctioninginhypersalinehabitats.Fewzooplankton
taxawereabletowithstandtheharshenvironmentalconditionsduring2010.TheseweretheflatwormMacrostomumsp.,
theharpacticoidcopepodCletocamptusconfluens,thecyclopoidcopepodApocyclopscf.dengizicusandtheciliateFabreacf.
salina.Inadditiontotheirexceptionalsalinitytolerance,theywereinvolvedinaremarkablysimplefoodweb.InJune2009,
abloomofanorange-pigmentedcyanobacterium(Cyanothecesp.)wasrecordedinFalseBayandpersisteduninterruptedly
for18months.StableisotopeanalysissuggeststhatthiscyanobacteriumwasthemainpreyitemofF.cf.salina.Thisciliate
wasthenconsumedbyA.cf.dengizicus,whichinturnwaspresumablyconsumedbyflamingosastheyflockedinthearea
whenthecopepodsattainedswarmingdensities.Ontheshore,cyanobacteriamatscontributedtoapopulationexplosion
ofthestaphylinidbeetleBlediuspilicollis.Althoughzooplanktondisappearedoncesalinitiesexceeded130,manytaxaare
capableofproducingsporesorrestingcyststobridgeharshperiods.Thehypersalinecommunitywasdisruptedbyheavy
summer rains in 2011, which alleviated drought conditions and resulted in a sharp increase in zooplankton stock and
diversity.
Conclusions/Significance:Despitethecurrentfreshwaterdeprivationcrisis,theFalseBayregionhasshowntoberesilient,
harboringauniquebiodiversitywithspeciesthatarecapableofenduringharshenvironmentalconditions.However,further
freshwater deprivation may extend be
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