Potential bioavailability of organic matter from atmospheric particles to marine heterotrophic bacteria
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| Date | 2020-12 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Djaoudi Kahina1, 2, Van Wambeke France1, Barani Aude1, Bhairy Nagib1, Chevaillier Servanne5, Desboeufs Karine5, Nunige Sandra1, Labiadh Mohamed3, Des Tureaux Thierry Henry4, Lefevre Dominique1, Nouara Amel1, Panagiotopoulos Christos 1, Tedetti Marc1, Pulido-Villena Elvira1 |
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| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD,MIO UM 110, F-13288 Marseille, France. 2 : Univ Arizona, Mol & Cellular Biol, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. 3 : IRA Inst Reg Arides Medenine, El Fje4119, Medenine, Tunisia. 4 : Univ Paris, iEES Paris Inst Ecol & Sci Environm Paris, UMR IRD 242, Univ Paris Est Creteil,Sorbonne Univ,CNRS,INRA, F-93143 Bondy, France. 5 : Univ Paris, Univ Paris Est Creteil, LISA, Inst Pierre Simon Laplace IPSL,UMR7583, Creteil, France. |
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| Source | Biogeosciences (1726-4170) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2020-12 , Vol. 17 , N. 24 , P. 6271-6285 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.5194/bg-17-6271-2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Note | Special issue | Atmospheric deposition in the low-nutrient-low-chlorophyll (LNLC) ocean: effects on marine life today and in the future (BG/ACP inter-journal SI) Editor(s): Christine Klaas, Cecile Guieu, Karine Desboeufs, Jan-Berend Stuut, Mark Moore, Paraskevi Pitta, Silvia Becagli, and Chiara Santinelli Special issue jointly organized between Biogeosciences and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | The surface ocean receives important amounts of organic carbon from atmospheric deposition. The degree of bioavailability of this source of organic carbon will determine its impact on the marine carbon cycle. In this study, the potential availability of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) leached from both desert dust and anthropogenic aerosols to marine heterotrophic bacteria was investigated. The experimental design was based on 16 d incubations, in the dark, of a marine bacterial inoculum into artificial seawater amended with water-soluble Saharan dust (D treatment) and anthropogenic (A treatment) aerosols, so that the initial DOC concentration was similar between treatments. Glucose-amended (G) and non-amended (control) treatments were run in parallel. Over the incubation period, an increase in bacterial abundance (BA) and bacterial production (BP) was observed first in the G treatment, followed then by the D and finally A treatments, with bacterial growth rates significantly higher in the G and D treatments than the A treatment. Following this growth, maxima of BP reached were similar in the D (879 +/- 64 ng C L-1 h(-1); n = 3) and G (648 +/- 156 ng C L-1 h(-1); n = 3) treatments and were significantly higher than in the A treatment (124 ng C L-1 h(-1); n = 2). The DOC consumed over the incubation period was similar in the A (9 mu M; n = 2) and D (9 +/- 2 mu M; n = 3) treatments and was significantly lower than in the G treatment (22 +/- 3 mu M; n = 3). Nevertheless, the bacterial growth efficiency (BGE) in the D treatment (14.2 +/- 5.5 %; n = 3) compared well with the G treatment (7.6 +/- 2 %; n = 3), suggesting that the metabolic use of the labile DOC fraction in both conditions was energetically equivalent. In contrast, the BGE in the A treatment was lower (1.7 %; n = 2), suggesting that most of the used labile DOC was catabolized. The results obtained in this study highlight the potential of aerosol organic matter to sustain the metabolism of marine heterotrophs and stress the need to include this external source of organic carbon in biogeochemical models for a better constraining of the carbon budget. |
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