Dominance of facultative and obligate oligotrophic bacteria in surface waters above Gunnerus and Astrid Ridge, Antarctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Tan, Tjhing Lok, Joiris, Claude R, Glansdorff, Nicolas, Rüger, Hans-Jürgen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1999
• Subjects: ANT-VIII/6; Cosmonauts Sea; Indian Ocean; Lazarev Sea; Polarstern; PS16; PS16/507; PS16/509; PS16/515; PS16/518; PS16/526; PS16/530; PS16/534; PS16/536; PS16/540; PS16/547; PS16/549; PS16/552; PS16/554; PS16/557; Riiser-Larsen Sea; South Atlantic Ocean; Water sample; WS; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Cosmonauts sea
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.746515; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.746515

Facultative and obligate oligotrophs have been enumerated in March/April 1990 by the MPN-method with 14C-protein hydrolysate as tracer substrate. Obligate (10-3360 cells/ml) and facultative (110-9000 cells/ml) oligotrophs revealed to be the dominant population above Gunnerus Ridge (65°30'-68°S;...