Allochthonous Carbon-a Major Driver of Bacterioplankton Production in the Subarctic Northern Baltic Sea

• Published in: Microbial Ecology
• Main Authors: Figueroa, D., Rowe, O. F., Paczkowska, J., Legrand, C., Andersson, A.
• Other Authors: Department of Food and Nutrition
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Allochthonous organic matter; Carbon utilization; Bacterioplankton production; Sub-arctic estuary; Baltic Sea; DISSOLVED ORGANIC-MATTER; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOOD-WEB STRUCTURE; INORGANIC NUTRIENTS; GROWTH EFFICIENCY; LAKE ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE SYSTEM; LAND-USE; BIOAVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; 1172 Environmental sciences; Arctic; Spring River; Northern Sweden; Phytoplankton; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/212597

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...