Bacterial Metabolic Response to Change in Phytoplankton Communities and Resultant Effects on Carbon Cycles in the Amundsen Sea Polynya, Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Bomina Kim, Sung-Han Kim, Jun-Oh Min, Youngju Lee, Jinyoung Jung, Tae-Wan Kim, Jae Seong Lee, Eun Jin Yang, Jisoo Park, SangHoon Lee, Jung-Ho Hyun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
• Subjects: bacterial production; bacterial respiration; phytoplankton community composition; microbial loop; biological pump; Amundsen Sea polynya; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Austral; Amundsen Sea; Rho; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.872052; https://doaj.org/article/67cff135a5aa4033a4b57301c5ddf339

We investigated changes in heterotrophic bacterial metabolic activities and associated carbon cycles in response to a change in dominant phytoplankton communities during two contrasting environmental conditions in austral summer in the Amundsen Sea polynya (ASP), Antarctica: the closed polynya condi...