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Growth and specific P-uptake rates of bacterial and phytoplanktonic communities in the Southeast Pacific (BIOSOPE cruise)

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Predicting heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton growth rates (µ) is of great scientific interest. Many methods have been developed in order to assess bacterial or phytoplankton µ. One widely used method is to estimate µ from data obtained on biomass or cell abundance and rates of biomass or cell production. According to Kirchman (2002), the most appropriate approach for estimating µ is simply to divide the production rate by the biomass or cell abundance estimate. Most of the methods using this approach are expressed using carbon (C) data. Nevertheless it is also possible to estimate µ using phosphate (P) data. We showed that particulate phosphate (PartP) can be used to estimate biomass and that the phosphate uptake rate to PartP ratio can be employed to assess µ. Contrary to other methods using C, this estimator does not need conversion factors and provides an evaluation of µ for both autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms. We report values of P-based µ in three size fractions (0.2–0.6; 0.6–2 and >2 µm) along a Southeast Pacific transect, over a wide range of P-replete trophic status. P-based µ values were higher in the 0.6–2 µm fraction than in the >2 µm fraction, suggesting that picoplankton-sized cells grew faster than the larger cells, whatever the trophic regime encountered. Picoplankton-sized cells grew significantly faster in the deep chlorophyll maximum layer than in the upper part of the photic zone in the oligotrophic gyre area, suggesting that picoplankton might outcompete >2 µm cells in this particular high-nutrient, low-light environment. P-based µ attributed to free-living bacteria (0.2–0.6 µm) and picoplankton (0.6–2 µm) size-fractions were relatively low (0.11±0.07 d-1 and 0.14±0.04 d-1, respectively) in the Southeast Pacific gyre, suggesting that the microbial community turns over very slowly.
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hal-00330248 , version 1 (18-06-2008)

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S. Duhamel, T. Moutin, France van Wambeke, B. van Mooy, P. Rimmelin, et al.. Growth and specific P-uptake rates of bacterial and phytoplanktonic communities in the Southeast Pacific (BIOSOPE cruise). 2007, pp.2027-2068. ⟨hal-00330248⟩
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