Abstract:To investigate greenhouse gas flux on the water-air interface in autumn, the large enclosures were built up in the near-shore zone of the northwestern Lake Chaohu, China. The YL-1000 large-scale bionic cyanobacteria removal equipment was used to salvage cyanobacteria in situ. The characteristics of CH4 and CO2 fluxes and their influencing factors in the salvaging and control zone were observed by static chamber method equipped with a portable greenhouse gas analyzer. The results showed that the concentration of chlorophyll-a and suspended solids (SS) (29.6±2.5 μg/L and 12.5±1.2 mg/L, respectively) in the salvaging zone significantly decreased with the reduction rate of 72% and 85%, respectively, compared with those in the control. The removal of particulate matter like total nitrogen, total phosphorus, SS and CODMn after salvaging was effective. The microbially-derived humic-like (C1) and autochthonous protein-like (C3) components in the DOM significantly decreased during the salvaging process. The C1 and C3 fluorescence intensity (0.18±0.02 RU and 0.06±0.01 RU, respectively) in the salvaging zone were significantly lower than those of control (0.26±0.05 RU and 0.12±0.03 RU, respectively), which suggested that salvaging can effectively control the release of algal-derived dissolved organic matter. The average flux of CH4 in the control (17.473±1.514 nmol/(m2·s)) was twice than that of the salvaging zone (7.004±4.163 nmol/(m2·s)). In the salvaging zone, CH4 flux was significantly positively correlated with Chl.a, C1 and C3 components, which suggested that algal-derived organic matter could promote CH4 flux. The CO2 flux showed a significant upward trend in the salvaging zone and remained constant in the control. The CO2 flux (-0.200±0.069 μmol/(m2·s)) in the salvaging zone was significantly higher than that in the control (-0.344±0.017 μmol/(m2·s)). The CO2 flux was significantly negatively correlated with Chl.a and temperature in salvaging zone. The total greenhouse gas emission reduction for CH4 and CO2 is 0.275±0.076 mol/(m2·d) (carbon dioxide equivalent). The results reveal that the continuous cyanobacterial salvaging process in Lake Chaohu reduces the flux of greenhouse gas on the water-air interface, and can slow down the vicious cycles between cyanobacterial blooms and lake eutrophication and climate warming.