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。基于国内外已有研究,从生理响应、群体行为及生态过程等层面,对微塑料与蓝藻水华相互作用的研究进展与作用机制进行了系统综述。结果显示:微塑料可通过附着、遮光及化学胁迫等过程改变蓝藻的生理状态与群体行为,进而影响水华形成及藻毒素产生;而蓝藻在水华发生与演替过程中通过胞外聚合物分泌、生物膜构建及异质聚集作用,显著改变微塑料的表面理化特性、迁移行为及环境归趋;二者形成的微塑料-蓝藻异质聚集体可进一步重塑颗粒沉降与传输过程,并通过放大水华维持效应、促进污染物在食物网中的传递及干扰物质循环,在群体和生态系统尺度上加剧水生态风险。相关研究有助于深化对微塑料-蓝藻相互作用及其生态效应的系统认知,以期为富营养化水体复合污染风险评估与管理提供科学依据。

     

    Abstract: With the continuous input of microplastics into freshwater environments, their long-term coexistence with cyanobacterial blooms in eutrophic waters has led to the formation of a complex pollution system characterized by multiple interaction pathways. Based on existing domestic and international studies, this review systematically summarizes the research progress and interaction mechanisms between microplastics and cyanobacterial blooms from the perspectives of physiological responses, population behaviors, and ecological processes. The results indicate that microplastics can alter the physiological status and collective behavior of cyanobacteria through attachment, light shading, and chemical stress, thereby influencing bloom formation and cyanotoxin production. During bloom development and succession, cyanobacteria can in turn markedly alter the surface physicochemical properties, migration behavior, and environmental fate of microplastics via extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) secretion, biofilm formation, and heteroaggregation processes. The resulting microplastic-cyanobacteria heteroaggregates may further reshape particle sedimentation and transport dynamics, and amplify aquatic ecological risks at both population and ecosystem scales by enhancing bloom persistence, facilitating pollutant transfer within food webs, and disrupting biogeochemical cycling. These findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of microplastic-cyanobacteria interactions and their ecological effects, thereby providing a scientific basis for the risk assessment and management of complex pollution in eutrophic aquatic systems.

     

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