[Responses of Plankton Microeukaryotic Community to Increasing Temperatures Created by Power Plant Thermal Discharges].

Plankton microeukaryotes are primary producers, bacterial grazers and parasites in the ocean, thus contributing essential roles in marine ecosystem stability. For this reason, understanding how the microeukaryotic community responds to increasing temperature created by thermal discharges is key to evaluating the ecological and environmental consequences of a power plant. In this study, using an Illumina sequencing based analysis of eukaryotic 18S rDNA gene, we investigated the compositions of microeukaryotic community along a thermal gradient caused by the discharge from the Wusha Mountain power plant in Xiangshan Bay.