浮游植物群落演替过程中的趋同性与趋异性：围隔实验-环境科学专业论文.docxVIP

暨南大学硕士学位论文 暨南大学硕士学位论文 II II Abstract A community is considered a biological unit of an ecosystem. Its assembly is an essential and dynamic issue in community ecology study. However, the pattern of community assembly remains controversial. One viewpoint holds that there is a consistent match between the environment and community. Species composition should converge towards the certain configuration in a system with similar environmental (or ecological) conditions. The alternative view holds that historical sequences should be considered in community assembly and different historical sequences of populations occurring in a community can lead to final distinct community compositions. Phytoplankton is the main primary producer in pelagic water. All the species are sensitive to external conditions because of their small size and high reproductive rate. Phytoplankton communities can be easily affected by disturbances that result in succession. Therefore, the phytoplankton is an ideal model for community succession study. In the present thesis, an enclosure experiment system (fifteen enclosures) was designed and conducted, comprising three treatments (control, nutrient enrichment and fish stocking) in Liuxihe Reservoir, Guangdong Province. Each treatment had five replications. Three, four or five replications are randomly selected in each treatment for data analysis. The results showed that the successions of phytoplankton communities are very similar in spite of the different replication number used in the treatment for data analysis. That means the succession of phytoplankton community converge and three replications are enough for community study although the standard error became lower when the more replications were used. That implies the accuracy can be improved by increasing the number of replications. In addition, nutrient enrichment and fish stocking also led to a lower standard error in this experiment. It can be inferred that enrichment and fish stocking tend to