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AME 37:121-135 (2004)
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Heterotrophic bacterial activity and fluxes of dissolved free amino acids and glucose in the Arctic rivers Ob, Yenisei and the adjacent Kara Sea
Benedikt Meon1,3,*, Rainer M. W. Amon2,4
1Institute for Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany 2Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Department of Biological Oceanography, Postfach 120161,
27515 Bremerhaven, Germany 3Present address: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Department of Biological Oceanography, Am Handelshafen 12, Postfach 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany 4Present
address: Department of Marine Sciences and Oceanography, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 5007 Ave U, Galveston, Texas 77551, USA
*Email: bmeon@awi-bremerhaven.de
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ABSTRACT: Various parameters of bacterial activity were measured in the Kara Sea system (Arctic) including the freshwater endmembers of the rivers Ob and Yenisei during August/September 2001. Average bacterial production in surface water was highest in
the rivers (13.5 µg C l1 d1) and decreased towards the estuaries (5.8 µg C l1 d1) and the open Kara Sea (2.4 µg C l1 d1). Bacterial
production in the salinity gradient was significantly correlated to chlorophyll a concentrations (r = 0.78, p < 0.001), indicating a tight coupling between primary production and bacterial growth. Similar to bacterial production mean
turnover-rate constants of dissolved free amino acids (DFAA) and glucose decreased from the rivers (1.5 to 1.9 d1) towards the Kara Sea (0.4 d1). In combination with low in situ concentrations of DFAA (<50 nM)
and glucose (<10 nM) and the immediate stimulation of bacterial growth upon addition of glucose in incubation experiments this suggests that bacteria were limited by the availability of organic carbon and that the supply of substrates governed the
distribution pattern of bacterial growth. Mean uptake of DFAA contributed more to bacterial production (24 to >100%) than glucose uptake (<10%). Addition of filtered water from the Yenisei to untreated water from the Kara Sea caused no increase in
bacterial production relative to the controls, indicating that riverine dissolved organic material is not the primary source of labile compounds for the bacterial community of the Kara Sea. Based on a bacterial growth efficiency of 27% that was derived
from bacterial production and respiration measurements, our estimates for the bacterial carbon demand confine the export of surplus primary production from the Kara Sea to the central Arctic.
KEY WORDS: Bacteria · Arctic Ocean · Dissolved free amino acids · Glucose · Riverine dissolved organic material · Bacterial carbon demand · Bacterial growth efficiency · Arctic rivers · Kara Sea
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Published in AME Vol.
37, No. 2
(2004) on November 11
Print ISSN: 0948-3055; Online ISSN: 1616-1564.
Copyright © Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, 2004
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