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[Distribution Characteristics of Microplastic Surface Bacterial Communities Under Flooded and Non-flooded Conditions in Nanjishan Wetland of Poyang Lake].
Summary
A 16S sequencing study of bacterial communities in the Poyang Lake wetland found that microbial diversity on microplastic surfaces was lower than in surrounding sediment and water, with the microplastic biofilm community shifting between sediment-like (non-flooded) and water-like (flooded) profiles depending on water level. The plastisphere communities were dominated by distinct bacterial genera including elevated Proteobacteria, suggesting that microplastics select for specific microbial assemblages in natural wetland ecosystems.
Plastic particles smaller than 5 mm in size are known as microplastics which are widespread in the environment and can cause several negative effects. Moreover, only a few studies have focused on the relationship between microplastics and microbes in the natural wetland ecosystem. In this study, microplastics were collected from sediment, water, and sediment flooded and non-flooded conditions in the lake wetland of Poyang Lake as the study area. The structural distribution of bacterial community on sediment, water, and microplastics were analyzed using 16S high-throughput sequencing. The results of the α-diversity analysis showed that the bacterial abundance and diversity on the surface of microplastics were significantly different from those in the environment and were lower than those in the surrounding environment in both flooded and non-flooded conditions. The results of the principal co-ordinates analysis indicated that the bacterial community on the surface of microplastics was more influenced by the sediment in non-flooded conditions and by the water in flooded conditions. The structure of the bacterial community on the microplastic surface also showed significant differences from the surrounding environment, with the sediment mainly consisting of several other bacterial genera with <1% abundance, whereas the bacterial community on the microplastics had clearly dominant species. The relative abundance of Proteobacteria on the microplastic surfaces increased significantly in the non-flooded condition compared to that in the water and sediment samples, whereas the relative abundance of Bacteroidota on the microplastic surface increased in the flooded condition. The genus Flavobacterium, Massilia, and Pseudomonas were the most abundant in the non-flooded state, and the genus Flavobacterium was the most abundant in the flooded state. In this study, Pseudomonas spp. was the focus of future research on plastic biodegradation. This study can further improve the understanding of microplastic pollution in wetland ecosystems and provide a theoretical basis for lake environmental management.
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