Allochthonous Carbon - a major driver of bacterioplankton production in the subarctic Northern Baltic Sea

• Published in: Microbial Ecology
• Main Authors: Figueroa, Daniela, Rowe, Owen, Paczkowska, Joanna, Legrand, Catherine, Andersson, Agneta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap 2016
• Subjects: Allochthonous organic matter; carbon utilization; bacterioplankton production; Sub-arctic estuary; Baltic Sea; Ecology; Ekologi; Arctic; Spring River; Northern Sweden; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-117966; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-015-0714-4

Heterotrophic bacteria are, in many aquatic systems, reliant on autochthonous organic carbon as their energy source. One exception is low-productive humic lakes, where allochthonous dissolved organic matter (ADOM) is the major driver. We hypothesized that bacterial production (BP) is similarly regul...