Stress factors resulting from the Arctic vernal sea-ice melt : Impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae
During sea-ice melt in the Arctic, primary production by sympagic (sea-ice) algae can be exported efficiently to the seabed if sinking rates are rapid and activities of associated heterotrophic bacteria are limited. Salinity stress due to melting ice has been suggested to account for such low bacter...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.ruw2td 2023-05-15T14:56:41+02:00 Stress factors resulting from the Arctic vernal sea-ice melt : Impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae Amiraux, Rémi Burot, Christopher Bonin, Patricia Massé, Guillaume Guasco, Sophie Babin, Marcel Vaultier, Frédéric Rontani, Jean-françois 2020-01-01 https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.076 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00681/79329/81840.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00681/79329/ en eng University of California Press doi:10.1525/elementa.076 10670/1.ruw2td https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00681/79329/81840.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00681/79329/ other Archimer, archive institutionnelle de l'Ifremer Elementa-science Of The Anthropocene (2325-1026) (University of California Press), 2020 , Vol. 8 , N. 1 , P. 076 (20p.) envir geo Text https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_18cf/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.076 2023-01-22T17:06:53Z During sea-ice melt in the Arctic, primary production by sympagic (sea-ice) algae can be exported efficiently to the seabed if sinking rates are rapid and activities of associated heterotrophic bacteria are limited. Salinity stress due to melting ice has been suggested to account for such low bacterial activity. We further tested this hypothesis by analyzing samples of sea ice and sinking particles collected from May 18 to June 29, 2016, in western Baffin Bay as part of the Green Edge project. We applied a method not previously used in polar regions—quantitative PCR coupled to the propidium monoazide DNA-binding method—to evaluate the viability of bacteria associated with sympagic and sinking algae. We also measured cis-trans isomerase activity, known to indicate rapid bacterial response to salinity stress in culture studies, as well as free fatty acids known to be produced by algae as bactericidal compounds. The viability of sympagic-associated bacteria was strong in May (only approximately 10% mortality of total bacteria) and weaker in June (average mortality of 43%; maximum of 75%), with instances of elevated mortality in sinking particle samples across the time series (up to 72%). Short-term stress reflected by cis-trans isomerase activity was observed only in samples of sinking particles collected early in the time series. Following snow melt, however, and saturating levels of photosynthetically active radiation in June, we observed enhanced ice-algal production of bactericidal compounds (free palmitoleic acid; up to 4.8 mg L–1). We thus suggest that protection of sinking sympagic material from bacterial degradation early in a melt season results from low bacterial activity due to salinity stress, while later in the season, algal production of bactericidal compounds induces bacterial mortality. A succession of bacterial stressors during Arctic ice melt helps to explain the efficient export of sea-ice algal material to the seabed. Text Arctic Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin ice algae Sea ice Unknown Arctic Baffin Bay Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 8 1 |
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During sea-ice melt in the Arctic, primary production by sympagic (sea-ice) algae can be exported efficiently to the seabed if sinking rates are rapid and activities of associated heterotrophic bacteria are limited. Salinity stress due to melting ice has been suggested to account for such low bacterial activity. We further tested this hypothesis by analyzing samples of sea ice and sinking particles collected from May 18 to June 29, 2016, in western Baffin Bay as part of the Green Edge project. We applied a method not previously used in polar regions—quantitative PCR coupled to the propidium monoazide DNA-binding method—to evaluate the viability of bacteria associated with sympagic and sinking algae. We also measured cis-trans isomerase activity, known to indicate rapid bacterial response to salinity stress in culture studies, as well as free fatty acids known to be produced by algae as bactericidal compounds. The viability of sympagic-associated bacteria was strong in May (only approximately 10% mortality of total bacteria) and weaker in June (average mortality of 43%; maximum of 75%), with instances of elevated mortality in sinking particle samples across the time series (up to 72%). Short-term stress reflected by cis-trans isomerase activity was observed only in samples of sinking particles collected early in the time series. Following snow melt, however, and saturating levels of photosynthetically active radiation in June, we observed enhanced ice-algal production of bactericidal compounds (free palmitoleic acid; up to 4.8 mg L–1). We thus suggest that protection of sinking sympagic material from bacterial degradation early in a melt season results from low bacterial activity due to salinity stress, while later in the season, algal production of bactericidal compounds induces bacterial mortality. A succession of bacterial stressors during Arctic ice melt helps to explain the efficient export of sea-ice algal material to the seabed. |
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Stress factors resulting from the Arctic vernal sea-ice melt : Impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae |
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Stress factors resulting from the Arctic vernal sea-ice melt : Impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae |
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Stress factors resulting from the Arctic vernal sea-ice melt : Impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae |
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Stress factors resulting from the Arctic vernal sea-ice melt : Impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae |
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Stress factors resulting from the Arctic vernal sea-ice melt : Impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae |
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stress factors resulting from the arctic vernal sea-ice melt : impact on the viability of bacterial communities associated with sympagic algae |
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