Bacterioplankton secondary production estimates for coastal waters of british columbia, antarctica, and california - PubMed (original) (raw)

Bacterioplankton secondary production estimates for coastal waters of british columbia, antarctica, and california

J A Fuhrman et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1980 Jun.

Abstract

The principal objective of this study was to quantify the rate of heterotrophic bacterioplankton production. Production was estimated by two approaches: (i) measurement of increasing bacterial abundance with time in filtered (3-mum pore size) seawater and (ii) estimation of bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis by tritiated thymidine incorporation in unfractionated seawater. The two approaches yielded comparable results when used at the Controlled Ecosystem Population Experiment (Saanich Inlet, British Columbia, Canada), at McMurdo Sound (Antarctica), and off Scripps Pier (La Jolla, Calif.). Estimated bacterioplankton production was lower in Antarctic samples (ranging from approximately 0 to 2.9 mug of C liter day) than in those from the other two sites (ranging from 0.7 to 71 mug of C liter day). In all three regions studied, it appeared that a significant fraction of the total primary production was utilized by the bacterioplankton and that substantial growth could occur in the absence of large particles. These results support the conclusion that bacterioplankton are a quantitatively important component of coastal marine food webs.

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