Enzymatic and microbial degradation of organic matter in Lake Hongfeng, Guizhou Province, China

被引:2
作者
Liang Xiaobing
Zhu Jianming
Liu Congqiang
Wei Zhongqing
Wang Fushun
Wan Guojiang
Huang Ronggui
机构
[1] Chinese Academy of Sciences,State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry
来源
Chinese Journal of Geochemistry | 2004年 / 23卷 / 1期
关键词
sediments; organic matter; enzyme; Lake Hongfeng; Guizhou;
D O I
10.1007/BF02841140
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摘要
In this work, enzymatic and microbial degradation of organic matter in Lake Hongfeng, Guizhou Province, is described in terms of variations in DNA, α-glucosidase and sulfatereduction bacteria (SRB). Organic matter is degraded by microbes and extracellular enzymes excreted by the former, to a relatively low content below the 11-cm sediment depth. The distribution of DNA indicated that microbes are very active at the 9-cm sediment depth, where organic matter is degraded by microbes intensively. The contents of α-glucosidase are highest in suspend layer (0.75 μmol · min−1· g−1 dry sediments), showing that starch and hepatin in organic matter have been degraded intensively. α-glucosidase activity weakens with sediment depth. At the 11-cm depth where the degradation of organic matter started to slow down, α-glucosidase activity has been reduced to 0.17 μmol · min−1 · g−1 (dry sediment). Molecular biological research indicated that sulfate reduction bacteria (SRB) are distributed mainly at the upper 7-cm sediments in Lake Hongfeng. Combined with the results of research on the variations of organic matter and SO42−, it is indicated that SO42− is unlikely to become an important electron acceptor and sulfate reduction is not limited by the supply of organic matter in Lake Hongfeng.
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