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TI Microzooplankton diversity and potential role in carbon cycling of contrasting Southern Ocean productivity regimes
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AF Christaki, Urania
   Skouroliakou, Ioli-Dimitra
   Delegrange, Alice
   Irion, Solène
   Courcot, Lucie
   Jardillier, Ludwig
   Sassenhagen, Ingrid
AS 1:1;2:1;3:1,2;4:1;5:1;6:3;7:1,4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;
C1 Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale ULCO, CNRS, Univ. Lille, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, 62930 Wimereux, France
   Institut national supérieur du professorat et de l'éducation, Académie de Lille – Hauts de France, 59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
   Unité d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Rue du doyen A. Guinier bât. 360, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
   Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
C2 UNIV LITTORAL COTE D'OPALE, FRANCE
   INSPE, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS SUD, FRANCE
   UNIV UPPSALA, SWEDEN
IF 3.01
TC 9
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00689/80068/83085.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MD 188 / KEOPS 2
   MOBYDICK-THEMISTO
BO Marion Dufresne
DE ;Dinoflagellates;Ciliates;Microscopy;Metabarcoding;Dilution experiments;Southern Ocean;Microzooplankton;Diversity
AB Microzooplankton play an important role in aquatic food webs through their multiple interactions with other organisms and their impact on carbon export. They are major predators of phytoplankton and bacteria while being preyed on by higher trophic levels. Microzooplankton diversity (Dinoflagellates, DIN and Ciliates, CIL), community structure, interaction with phytoplankton and its potential in channeling carbon to higher trophic levels were studied in contrasting productivity regimes (off- and on-plateau, the latter been naturally fertilized by iron) around the Kerguelen islands in the Southern Ocean (SO). DIN and CIL diversity was sampled in late summer (February–March 2018; project MOBYDICK) and at the onset-of the bloom (KEOPS2 cruise), and assessed by Illumina sequencing of 18S rDNA amplicons and microscopic observations. The diversity obtained by the two approaches could be compared at a relatively high taxonomic level (i.e., often to family level). In particular for DIN, relative abundances and ranking of dominant taxa differed between sequencing and microscopy observations. CIL were always recorded at considerably lower abundances than DIN, the median of their abundances across stations and seasons being 350 and 1370 cells L−1, respectively. During late summer, DIN and CIL biomasses were about 1.5 times higher on- than in off-plateau waters, while community composition was spatially similar. The most abundant DIN at all stations and during both seasons were small Gymnodinium (<20 μm). During late summer, ciliates Lohmaniella oviformis (<20 μm) and Cymatocylis antarctica (20-40 μm) dominated on- and off-plateau, respectively. Dilution experiments suggested significant grazing of microzooplankton on phytoplankton as phytoplankton net growth (k) was lower than microzooplankton grazing (g) at all stations (mean k = 0.16 ± 0.05 d−1, g = 0.36 ± 0.09 d−1) in late summer. Despite having great potential as a phytoplankton grazer, microzooplankton occurred at low biomass and showed little temporal variability, suggesting that they were controlled by copepod predation. Microzooplankton are a key component of the SO as an intermediate trophic level mediating carbon transfer from primary producers to higher trophic levels. 
PY 2021
PD JUN
SO Journal Of Marine Systems
SN 0924-7963
PU Elsevier BV
VL 219
UT 000663225300002
DI 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2021.103531
ID 80068
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