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Diatom response to heavy metal pollution and nutrient enrichment in an urban lake: evidence from paleolimnology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2014

Xu Chen ,
Changan Li ,
Suzanne McGowan  and
Xiangdong Yang
Xu Chen*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Geobiology and Environmental Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, China School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK
Changan Li
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Geobiology and Environmental Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, China
Suzanne McGowan
Affiliation:
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK School of Geography, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, 43 500 Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Xiangdong Yang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
*
*Corresponding author: xuchen@cug.edu.cn
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Abstract

Diatoms and geochemical stratigraphy were studied in sediment core samples collected from a heavily polluted urban lake (SE China) in order to track the history of eutrophication and heavy metal contamination. The sediment profile covered ca. 60 years (from ca. 1951 to 2011) based on 137Cs and Spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCP) dating, and encompassed a period of rapid industrial development in this region. Diatoms experienced two visible shifts, including the replacement of benthic and epiphytic taxa by planktonic species (e.g., Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing) in 1972, and the dominance of Cyclotella atomus Hustedt and Nitzschia palea (Kützing) W. Smith after 1999. Metals (i.e., Cd, Pb and Zn), total phosphorus, total nitrogen and total organic carbon all increased in the past 60 years. Redundancy analysis was used to correlate diatom with chemical change and explained 50.3–60% of total variation in diatom data for three periods (from 1951 to 1999, between 1951 and 2011 and from 1972 to 2011). The combined effects of nutrients and metals were the predominant factor, capturing 29.6–42.8% of the total variance. Nutrients alone accounted for little more variance than did metals alone for the first flora shift about 1972. The further shift after 1999 was more influenced by the sole effect of metals than that of nutrients. Increases in species (e.g., N. Palea) able to tolerate both nutrient-related and metal-related stressors were related to persistent nutrient and metal inputs. In addition, climate warming might exacerbate eutrophication and metal contamination in this lake.

Keywords

Urban lakeheavy metal pollutioneutrophicationdiatomspheroidal carbonaceous particles
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Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , 2014 , pp. 121 - 130
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© EDP Sciences, 2014

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