水体中微塑料与蓝藻水华的相互作用:效应、机制与生态风险

Interactions between microplastics and cyanobacterial blooms in aquatic systems: effects, mechanisms, and ecological risks

  • 摘要: 随着微塑料在淡水环境中的持续输入,其与蓝藻水华在富营养化水体中长期共存,逐渐形成具有多重作用路径的复合污染体系。微塑料可通过提供附着基质、富集营养盐及改变光环境等方式,影响蓝藻的生长、聚集行为及水华形成过程;同时,微塑料及其浸出物和吸附污染物还可能诱导蓝藻产生氧化应激反应,调控藻毒素的合成与释放。而另一方面,蓝藻水华期间大量释放的胞外聚合物(EPS)和形成的生物膜可显著改变微塑料的表面性质、聚集状态与沉降行为,增强其对污染物的吸附能力,并影响其在水体与沉积物中的环境归趋。两者形成的微塑料–蓝藻异质聚集体可能通过扩大水华规模与延长持续时间、促进污染物在食物网中的传递以及扰动物质循环过程,进一步放大水生态系统的生态风险。综合现有研究,系统综述了微塑料与蓝藻水华之间在生理响应、群体行为及生态过程层面的双向作用机制,重点总结其对蓝藻水华和生态风险的放大效应,以期为富营养化水体复合污染的风险评估与管理提供理论依据。

     

    Abstract: With the continuous input of microplastics into freshwater environments, their long-term coexistence with cyanobacterial blooms in eutrophic waters has gradually formed a combined pollution system involving multiple interacting pathways. Microplastics can influence cyanobacterial growth, aggregation behavior, and bloom formation by providing attachment substrates, enriching nutrients, and altering the light environment. In addition, microplastics as well as their leachates and adsorbed contaminants may induce oxidative stress responses in cyanobacteria, thereby regulating the synthesis and release of cyanotoxins. Conversely, during cyanobacterial blooms, large amounts of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) released and the biofilms formed can significantly modify the surface properties, aggregation state, and sedimentation behavior of microplastics, enhance their capacity to adsorb pollutants, and alter their environmental fate in the water column and sediments. The resulting microplastic–cyanobacteria heteroaggregates may further amplify ecological risks by expanding bloom magnitude and prolonging bloom duration, facilitating the transfer of contaminants through food webs, and disturbing biogeochemical cycling processes. Based on existing studies, the bidirectional interactions between microplastics and cyanobacterial blooms at the levels of physiological responses, population behaviors, and ecological processes are systematically summarized, with particular emphasis on their amplifying effects on cyanobacterial blooms and ecological risks, providing a theoretical basis for the risk assessment and management of combined pollution in eutrophic freshwater systems.

     

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