Review article
FACTORS PROMOTING THE RECRUITMENT OF BENTHIC CYANOBACTERIA RESTING STAGES: A REVIEW
Gian Salazar Torres
; University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses and Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, Husova tř. 458/102, 370
Zdeněk Adámek
; University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses and Research Institute of Fish Culture and Hydrobiology, Husova tř. 458/102, 370
Abstract
The sediment-water interface in aquatic systems is an environment connecting bottom sediments with the overlying water column. This transition zone can be easily disturbed by mechanical mixing (bioturbation) caused by foraging fish and/or macroinvertebrates moving around and stirring sediment layers. The sediment of still water ecosystems is largely known as a reservoir of resting stages of various planktonic plants, including cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and invertebrates. The ecological and evolutionary dynamics of cyanobacteria is in part a function of the numbers and ages of diapausing stages hatching from aquatic sediments. Successful recruitment from this ”seed bank” must depend upon the resting stages being present at or near the sediment surface. Often, however, they are found as deep as 15 to 30 cm in the mud. Bioturbation may thus provide a mechanism for the regular return of buried cyanobacteria resting stages to the sediment surface.
Keywords
blue-green algae; pond bottom; bioturbation; water blooms
Hrčak ID:
112700
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2013.
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