Effects of Cyanobacterial Secondary
Metabolites on Phytoplankton Community
Succession
14
Ying Pei, Runbing Xu, Sabine Hilt, and Xuexiu Chang
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
2 Effects of Cyanobacterial Allelochemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
2.1 Effects on Planktonic Phototrophs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
2.2 Effects on Other Aquatic Organisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
3 Cyanobacterial Secondary Metabolites and Their Mode of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
3.1 Secondary Metabolites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
3.2 Modes of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
3.3 Impact of Signaling Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
4 Interfering Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
4.1 Biotic Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
4.2 Abiotic Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Abstract
Allelopathic effects are one of the factors potentially influencing the succession of
phytoplankton communities; however, their influence has often been neglected.
This is especially true for cyanobacteria that often outcompete other phytoplankton species and form blooms causing severe problems. Allelopathic effects of
cyanobacteria can play an important role for phytoplankton succession. In this
chapter, we introduce the different ways how aquatic organisms are influenced by
cyanobacterial allelochemicals; the mechanisms of their interaction from the
Y. Pei · R. Xu · X. Chang (*)
School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming,
People’s Republic of China
e-mail: evayingpei@gmail.com; runbingxu@ynu.edu.cn; changxx@ynu.edu.cn
S. Hilt
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
e-mail: hilt@igb-berlin.de
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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Metabolites on Phytoplankton Community
Succession
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Ying Pei, Runbing Xu, Sabine Hilt, and Xuexiu Chang
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
2 Effects of Cyanobacterial Allelochemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
2.1 Effects on Planktonic Phototrophs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
2.2 Effects on Other Aquatic Organisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
3 Cyanobacterial Secondary Metabolites and Their Mode of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
3.1 Secondary Metabolites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
3.2 Modes of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
3.3 Impact of Signaling Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
4 Interfering Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
4.1 Biotic Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
4.2 Abiotic Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
5 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Abstract
Allelopathic effects are one of the factors potentially influencing the succession of
phytoplankton communities; however, their influence has often been neglected.
This is especially true for cyanobacteria that often outcompete other phytoplankton species and form blooms causing severe problems. Allelopathic effects of
cyanobacteria can play an important role for phytoplankton succession. In this
chapter, we introduce the different ways how aquatic organisms are influenced by
cyanobacterial allelochemicals; the mechanisms of their interaction from the
Y. Pei · R. Xu · X. Chang (*)
School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming,
People’s Republic of China
e-mail: evayingpei@gmail.com; runbingxu@ynu.edu.cn; changxx@ynu.edu.cn
S. Hilt
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
e-mail: hilt@igb-berlin.de
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
J.-M. Mérillon, K. G. Ramawat (eds.), Co-Evolution of Secondary Metabolites,
Reference Series in Phytochemistry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96397-6_12
323