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Eigemann, F, Tait, K, Temperton, B and Hellweger, FL 2024 Internal carbon recycling by heterotrophic prokaryotes compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton production and heterotrophic consumption. The ISME Journal, 18 (1). 10.1093/ismejo/wrae103
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Abstract/Summary
Molecular observational tools are useful for characterizing the composition and genetic endowment of microbial communities but cannot measure fluxes, which are critical for the understanding of ecosystems. To overcome these limitations, we used a mechanistic inference approach to estimate dissolved organic carbon (DOC) production and consumption by phytoplankton operational taxonomic units and heterotrophic prokaryotic amplicon sequence variants and inferred carbon fluxes between members of this microbial community from Western English Channel time-series data. Our analyses focused on phytoplankton spring and summer blooms, as well as bacteria summer blooms. In spring blooms, phytoplankton DOC production exceeds heterotrophic prokaryotic consumption, but in bacterial summer blooms heterotrophic prokaryotes consume three times more DOC than produced by the phytoplankton. This mismatch is compensated by heterotrophic prokaryotic DOC release by death, presumably from viral lysis. In both types of summer blooms, large amounts of the DOC liberated by heterotrophic prokaryotes are reused through internal recycling, with fluxes between different heterotrophic prokaryotes being at the same level as those between phytoplankton and heterotrophic prokaryotes. In context, internal recycling accounts for approximately 75% and 30% of the estimated net primary production (0.16 vs 0.22 and 0.08 vs 0.29 μmol l−1 d−1) in bacteria and phytoplankton summer blooms, respectively, and thus represents a major component of the Western English Channel carbon cycle. We have concluded that internal recycling compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton DOC production and heterotrophic prokaryotic consumption, and we encourage future analyses on aquatic carbon cycles to investigate fluxes between heterotrophic prokaryotes, specifically internal recycling.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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| Additional Keywords: | carbon cycling, phytoplankton–bacteria interactions, dissolved organic carbon, mechanistic inference |
| Divisions: | Plymouth Marine Laboratory > National Capability categories > Long-term Multi-Centre LOCATE Plymouth Marine Laboratory > National Capability categories > Western Channel Observatory |
| Depositing User: | S Hawkins |
| Date made live: | 27 Jan 2025 11:04 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2025 11:04 |
| URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10362 |
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