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Title: | The impact of ice melting on bacterioplankton in the Arctic Ocean |
Authors: | Sala, M. Montserrat CSIC ORCID ; Arrieta López de Uralde, Jesús M. CSIC ORCID ; Boras, Julia A. CSIC ORCID; Duarte, Carlos M. CSIC ORCID; Vaqué, Dolors CSIC ORCID | Issue Date: | 2010 | Publisher: | Springer Nature | Citation: | Polar Biology 33: 1683- 1694 (2010) | Abstract: | Global warming and the associated ice melt are leading to an increase in the organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean. We evaluated the effects of ice melt on bacterioplankton at 21 stations in the Greenland Sea and Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2007, when a historical minimum of Arctic ice coverage was measured. Polar Surface Waters, which have a low temperature and low salinity and originate mainly from melted ice, contained a very low abundance of bacteria (7.01 × 105 ± 2.20 × 105 cells ml-1); however, these bacteria had high specific bacterial production (2.40 ± 1.61 fmol C bac-1 d-1) compared to those in Atlantic Waters. Specifically, bacterioplankton in Polar Surface Waters showed a preference for utilizing carbohydrates and had significantly higher specific activities of the glycosidases assayed, i. e. β-glucosidase, xylosidase, arabinosidase and cellobiosidase. Furthermore, bacterioplankton in Polar Sea Waters showed preferential growth on some of the carbohydrates in the Biolog Ecoplate, such as d-cellobiose and N-acetyl-d-glucosamine. Our results suggest that climate change and the associated melting of Arctic ice might induce changes in bacterioplankton functional diversity by enhancing the turnover of carbohydrates. Since organic aggregates are largely composed of polysaccharides, higher solubilization of aggregates might modify the carbon cycle, weaken the biological pump and have biogeochemical and ecological implications for the future Arctic Ocean. © 2010 Springer-Verlag. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/60357 | DOI: | 10.1007/s00300-010-0808-x | Identifiers: | doi: 10.1007/s00300-010-0808-x issn: 0722-4060 |
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