Microalgae Indicators of Metabolic Changes in Potamogeton perfoliatus L. Under Different Growing Conditions of Urban Territory Lakes in a Permafrost Area

Igor V. Sleptsov, Vladislav V. Mikhailov, Viktoria A. Filippova, Sophia Barinova (), Olga I. Gabysheva and Viktor A. Gabyshev
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Igor V. Sleptsov: Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (IBPC SB RAS), Lenin av., 41, 677980 Yakutsk, Russia
Vladislav V. Mikhailov: Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (IBPC SB RAS), Lenin av., 41, 677980 Yakutsk, Russia
Viktoria A. Filippova: Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (IBPC SB RAS), Lenin av., 41, 677980 Yakutsk, Russia
Sophia Barinova: Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, 199 Abba Khoushi Ave., Haifa 3498838, Israel
Olga I. Gabysheva: Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (IBPC SB RAS), Lenin av., 41, 677980 Yakutsk, Russia
Viktor A. Gabyshev: Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (IBPC SB RAS), Lenin av., 41, 677980 Yakutsk, Russia

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 6, 1-24

Abstract: Under conditions of increasing anthropogenic load, aquatic ecosystems all over the world are undergoing a transformation, expressed in the growth of eutrophication, the overgrowing of water bodies with higher vegetation of macrophytes, cyanobacterial bloom, and the increased concentrations of different pollutants in these objects. In the region of Eastern Siberia that we studied, located in the middle reaches of the Lena River basin, there is the city of Yakutsk—the largest city in the world built in a permafrost region. Within the city and its surroundings, there are many small lakes (less than 1 km 2 in area) which over the past decades have been subject to varying degrees of pressure associated with human activity (nutrients and organic matter loads, urban landscape transformation). This study is the first to combine the metabolomic profiling of Potamogeton perfoliatus with microalgal bioindication to assess anthropogenic impacts in permafrost urban lakes, providing a novel framework for monitoring ecological resilience in extreme environments. We studied four lakes with varying degrees of anthropogenic pressure. Using a comprehensive assessment of the bioindicator properties of planktonic microalgae and the chemical parameters of water using statistical methods and principal component analysis (PCA), the lakes most susceptible to anthropogenic pressure were identified. Concentrations of pollutant elements in the tissues of the submerged macrophyte aquatic plant Potamogeton perfoliatus L., which inhabits all the lakes we studied, were estimated. Data on the content of pollutant elements in aquatic vegetation and the results of metabolomic analysis made it possible to identify the main sources of anthropogenic impact in the urbanized permafrost area. The pollution of water bodies with some key pollutants leads to Potamogeton perfoliatus ’s metabolites decreasing, such as sucrose, monosaccharides (arabinose, mannose, fructose, glucose, galactose), organic acids (glyceric acid, malic acid, erythronic acid, fumaric acid, succinic acid, citric acid), fatty acids (linoleic and linolenic acids), myo-inositol, 4-coumaric acid, caffeic acid, rosmarinic acid, shikimic acid, and catechollactate, caused by pollution which may decrease the photosynthetic activity and worsen the sustainability of water ecosystems. Linkage was established between the accumulation of pollutants in plant tissues, the trophic status of the lake, and the percentage of eutrophic microalgae, which can be used in monitoring the anthropogenic load in the permafrost zone. Knowledge of the composition and concentration of secondary metabolites produced by macrophytes in permafrost lakes can be useful in organizing water resource management in terms of reducing the level of cyanobacterial blooms due to allelochemical compounds secreted by macrophytes. This new work makes possible the evaluation of the permafrost-zone small-lake anthropogenic load in the frame of a changing climate and the growing attention of the industry to Arctic resources.

Keywords: microalgae; Potamogeton perfoliatus L.; eutrophication; anthropogenic impact; metabolic responses; permafrost area; small lakes; Eastern Siberia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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