Structure of the oligotrophic planktonic food web under low grazing of heterotrophic bacteria: Takapoto Atoll, French Polynesia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 197, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-17

  Sakka, A ^a,d   Legendre, L ^a   Gosselin, M ^b   Delesalle, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Atoll lagoon; Coral reef; Dilution method; Fluorescent labeled prey method; Planktonic food web; Protozoan grazing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOMASS; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; MICROZOOPLANKTON; MORTALITY; PLANKTON; PLANT GROWTH;

ATOLL; BACTERIOPLANKTON; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; LAGOON; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; TAKAPOTO ATOLL;

ACHRADINA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; HALOSPHAERA; LEUCOCRYPTOS; NANNOCHLOROPSIS; PROROCENTRUM;

EID: 0034640528     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps197001     Document Type: Article

References (95)

1. Andersson A, Larsson U, Hagström A (1986) Size selective predation by a microflagellate on pelagic bacteria. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 33:51-57
2. Azam F (1998) Microbial control of oceanic carbon flux: the plot thickens. Science 280:694-696
3. Azam F, Fenchel T, Field JG, Gray JS, Meyer-Reil LA, Thingstad F (1983) The ecological role of water-column microbes in the sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 10:257-263
4. Banse K (1982) Cell volume, maximal growth rates of unicellular algae and ciliates, and role of ciliates in the marine pelagial. Limnol Oceanogr 27:1059-1071
5. Barbeau K, Moffett JW, Caron DA, Croot PL, Erdner DL (1996) Role of protozoan grazing in relieving iron limitation of phytoplankton. Nature 380:61-63
6. Bernard C, Rassoulzadegan F (1993) The role of picoplankton (cyanobacteria and plastidic picoflagellates) in the diet of tintinnids. J Plankton Res 15:361-373
7. Bienfang PK, Morales L, Klein K, Takahashi M (1984) Picoplankton growth rates in subtropical Hawaiian embayment. Pac Sci 38:134-140
8. Booth BC (1987) The use of autofluorescence for analyzing oceanic phytoplankton communities. Bot Mar 30:101-108
9. Booth B (1988) Size classes and major taxonomic groups of phytoplankton at two locations in the subarctic Pacific Ocean in May and August 1984. Mar Biol 97:275-286
10. Campbell L, Carpenter EJ (1986) Estimating the grazing pressure of heterotrophic nanoplankton on Synechococcus spp. using the sea water dilution and selective inhibitor techniques. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 33:121-129
11. Capriulo GM (1990) Feeding-related ecology of marine protozoa. In: Capriulo GM (ed) Ecology of marine protozoa. Oxford University Press, New York, p 186-257
12. Charpy L (1996) Phytoplankton biomass and production in two Tuamotu atoll lagoons (French Polynesia). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 145:133-142
13. Charpy L, Blanchot J (1998) Photosynthetic picoplankton in French Polynesian atoll lagoons: estimation of taxa contribution to biomass and production by flow cytometry. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 162:57-70
14. Charpy L, Dufour P, Garcia N (1997) Particulate organic matter in sixteen Tuamotu atoll lagoons (French Polynesia). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 151:55-65
15. Christaki U, Dolan JR, Pelegri S, Rassoulzadegan F (1998) Consumption of picoplankton-size particles by marine ciliates: effects of physiological state of the ciliate and particle quality. Limnol Oceanogr 43:458-464
16. Coffin RB, Sharp JH (1987) Microbial trophodynamics in the Delaware Estuary. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 41:253-266
17. Davis PG, Sieburth JM (1984) Estuarine and oceanic microflagellate predation of actively growing bacteria: estimation by frequency of dividing-divided bacteria. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 19:237-246
18. del Giorgio PA, Gasol JM, Vaque D, Mura P, Agusti S, Duarte CM (1996) Bacterioplankton community structure: protists control net production and the proportion of active bacteria in a coastal marine community. Limnol Oceanogr 41: 1169-1179
19. Ducklow HW (1990) The biomass, production and fate of bacteria in coral reefs. In: Dubinsky Z (ed) Coral reefs, Vol 25. Elsevier, Amsterdam, p 265-290
20. Fenchel T (1982a) Ecology of heterotrophic microflagellates. I. Some important forms and their functional morphology. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 8:211-223
21. Fenchel T (1982b) Ecology of heterotrophic microflagellates. II. Bioenergetics and growth. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 8:225-231
22. Fenchel T (1982c) Ecology of heterotrophic microflagellates. III. Adaptations to heterogeneous environments. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 9:25-33
23. Fenchel T (1982d) Ecology of heterotrophic microflagellates. IV. Quantitative occurrence and importance as bacterial consumers. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 9:35-42
24. Ferrier-Pagès C, Gattuso JP (1998) Biomass, production and grazing rates of pico- and nanoplankton in coral reef waters (Miyako Island, Japan). Microb Ecol 35:46-57
25. Fuhrman JA, Noble RT (1995) Viruses and protists cause similar bacterial mortality in coastal seawater. Limnol Oceanogr 40:1236-1242
26. Fuhrman JA, Suttle CA (1993) Viruses in marine planktonic systems. Oceanography 6:51-63
27. Gifford DJ (1988) Impact of grazing by microzooplankton in the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 47:249-258
28. + experiments. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 82:65-74
29. González JM (1996) Efficient size-selective bacterivory by phagotrophic nanoflagellates in aquatic ecosystems. Mar Biol 126:785-789
30. González JM, Sherr EB, Sherr BF (1990) Size-selective grazing on bacteria by natural assemblages of estuarine flagellates and ciliates. Appl Environ Microbiol 56:583-589
31. González JM, Sherr EB, Sherr BF (1993) Differential feeding by marine flagellates on growing versus starving, and on motile versus nonmotile, bacterial prey. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 102:257-267
32. González JM, Torréton JP, Dufour P, Charpy L (1998) Temporal and spatial dynamics of the pelagic microbial food web in an atoll lagoon. Aquat Microb Ecol 16:53-64
33. Hagström Å, Azam F, Andersson A, Wikner J, Rassoulzadegan F (1988) Microbial loop in oligotrophic pelagic marine ecosystem: possible roles of cyanobacteria and nanoflagellates in the organic fluxes. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 49:171-178
34. Hansen PJ (1992) Prey size selection, feeding rates and growth dynamics of heterotrophic dinoflagellates with special emphasis on Gymnodinium spirale. Mar Biol 114: 327-334
35. Havskum H, Hansen AS (1997) Importance of pigmented and colorless nano-sized protists as grazers on nanoplankton in a phosphate-depleted Norwegian fjord and in enclosures. Aquat Microb Ecol 12:139-151
36. Herndl GJ, Müller-Niklas G, Frick J (1993) Major role of ultraviolet-B in controlling bacterioplankton growth in the surface layer of the ocean. Nature 361:717-719
37. Hobbie JE, Daley RJ, Jasper S (1977) Use of Nuclepore filters for counting bacteria by fluorescence microscopy. Appl Environ Microbiol 33:1225-1228
38. Jeffrey WH, Pledger RJ, Aas P, Hager S, Coffin RB, Von Haven R, Mitchell DL (1996) Diel and depth profiles of DNA photodamage in bacterioplankton exposed to ambient solar ultraviolet radiation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 137: 283-291
39. Jonsson PR (1986) Particle size selection, feeding rates and growth dynamics of marine planktonic oligotrichous ciliates (Ciliphora: Oligotrichina). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 33: 265-277
40. -1 on marine Synechococcus WH7803-I. Growth, pigmentation and cell composition. Deep-Sea Res 34:479-516
41. Kuosa H (1991) Picoplanktonic algae in the northern Baltic Sea: seasonal dynamics and flagellate grazing. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 73:269-276
42. Landry MR (1993) Estimating rates of growth and grazing mortality of photoautotrophic plankton by dilution. In: Kemp PF, Sherr BF, Sherr EB, Cole JJ (eds) Handbook of methods in aquatic microbial ecology. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, p 715-722
43. Landry MR (1994) Methods and controls for measuring the grazing impact of planktonic protists. Mar Microb Food Webs 8:37-57
44. Landry MR, Hassett RP (1982) Estimating the grazing impact of marine micro-zooplankton. Mar Biol 67:283-288
45. Landry MR, Hass LW, Fagerness VL (1984) Dynamics of microbial plankton communities: experiments in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 16:127-133
46. Landry MR, Kirshtein J, Constantinou J (1995) A refined dilution technique for measuring the community grazing impact of microzooplankton, with experimental tests in the central equatorial Pacific. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 120:53-63
47. Le Borgne R, Rodier M, LeBouteiller A, Kulbicki M (1997) Plankton biomass and production in an open atoll lagoon: Uvea, New Caledonia. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 212:187-210
48. Legendre L, Le Fèvre J (1995) Microbial food webs and the export of biogenic carbon in ocean. Aquat Microb Ecol 9: 69-77
49. Legendre L, Rassoulzadegan F (1995) Plankton and nutrient dynamics in marine waters. Ophelia 41:153-172
50. Lessard EJ, Swift E (1985) Species-specific grazing rates of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in oceanic waters, measured with a dual-label radioisotope technique. Mar Biol 87: 289-296
51. Linley EAS, Koop K (1986) Significance of pelagic bacteria as a trophic resource in coral reef lagoon, One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef. Mar Biol 92:457-464
52. Liu H, Campbell L, Landry MR (1995) Growth and mortality rates of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus measured with a selective inhibitor technique. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 116:277-287
53. Lund JWG, Kipling C, LeCren ED (1958) The inverted microscope method of estimating algal numbers and statistical basis of estimations by counting. Hydrobiologia 11: 143-170
54. Marrasé C, Lin Lim E, Caron DA (1992) Seasonal and daily change in bacterivory in a coastal plankton community. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 82:218-289
55. Miller CA, Penry DL, Gilbert PM (1995) The impact of trophic interactions on rates of nitrogen regeneration and grazing in Chesapeake Bay. Limnol Oceanogr 40:1005-1011
56. Nielsen TG, Løkkegaard B, Richardson K, Pedersen FB, Hansen L (1993) Structure of plankton communities in the Dogger Bank area (North Sea) during a stratified situation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 95:115-131
57. Paffenhöfer GA (1998) Heterotrophic protozoa and small metazoa: feeding rates and prey-consumer interactions. J Plankton Res 20:121-133
58. Parsons TR, Maita Y, Lalli CM (1984) A manual of chemical and biological methods for seawater analysis. Pergamon Press, Oxford
59. Porter KG, Feig YS (1980) The use of DAPI for identifying and counting aquatic microflora. Limnol Oceanogr 25:943-948
60. Rassoulzadegan F (1993) Protozoan patterns in the Azam-Ammerman's bacterial-phytoplankton mutualism. In: Guerrero R, Pedros-Alio C (eds) Trends in microbial ecology. Spanish Society for Microbiology, Barcelona, p 435-439
61. Rassoulzadegan F, Sheldon RW (1986) Predation-prey interactions of nanozooplankton and bacteria in oligotrophic marine environment. Limnol Oceanogr 31:1010-1021
62. Reckermann M, Veldhuis MJW (1997) Trophic interactions between picophytoplankton and micro- and nanozooplankton in the western Arabian Sea during the NE monsoon 1993. Aquat Microb Ecol 12:263-273
63. Riegman R, Kuipers BR, Noordeloos AAM, Witte HJ (1993) Size-differential control of phytoplankton and the structure of plankton communities. Neth J Sea Res 31:255-265
64. Roman MR, Ducklow HW, Fuhrman JA, Garside C, Gilbert PM, Malone T, McManus GB (1988) Production, consumption and nutrient cycling in a laboratory mesocosm. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 42:39-52
65. Rublee PA, Gallegos CL (1989) Use of fluorescently labelled algae (FLA) to estimate microzooplankton grazing. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 51:221-227
66. Sakka A, Legendre L, Gosselin M, LeBlanc B, Delesalle B, Price N (1999) Nitrate, phosphate and iron limitation of the plankton assemblage in the lagoon of Takapoto Atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia). Aquat Microb Ecol 19:149-161
67. Sanders RW, Wickham SA (1993) Planktonic protozoa and metazoa: predation, food quality and population control. Mar Microb Food Webs 7:197-223
68. Sherr BF, Sherr EB (1991) Proportional distribution of total numbers, biovolume, and bacterivory among size classes of 2-20 μm nonpigmented marine flagellates. Mar Microb Food Webs 5:227-237
69. Sherr BF, Sherr EB, Berman T (1983) Grazing, growth and ammonium excretion rates of a heterotrophic microflagellate fed with four species of bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 45:1196-1201
70. Sherr BF, Sherr EB, Andrew TL, Fallon RD, Newell SY (1986) Trophic interactions between heterotrophic protozoa and bacterioplankton in estuarine water analyzed with selective metabolic inhibitors. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 32:169-179
71. Sherr BF, Sherr EB, Fallon RD (1987) Use of monodispersed, fluorescently labelled bacteria to estimate in situ protozoan bacterivory. Appl Environ Microb 53:958-965
72. Sherr BF, Sherr EB, Pedros-Alió C (1989) Simultaneous measurement of bacterioplankton production and protozoan bacterivory in estuarine water. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 54: 209-219
73. Sherr BF, Sherr EB, McDaniel J (1992) Effect of protistan grazing on the frequency of dividing cells in bacterioplankton assemblage. Appl Environ Microbiol 58: 2381-2385
74. Sherr EB, Sherr BF (1993) Protistan grazing rates via uptake of fluorescently labelled prey. In: Kemp P, Sherr B, Sherr E, Coles J (eds) Handbook of methods in aquatic microbial ecology. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, p 695-702
75. Sherr EB, Sherr BF (1994) Bacterivory and herbivory: key roles of phagotrophic protists in pelagic food webs. Microb Ecol 28:223-235
76. Sherr EB, Sherr BF, Paffenhöfer GA (1986) Phagotrophic protozoa as food for metazoans: a 'missing' trophic link in marine pelagic food webs? Mar Microb Food Webs 1: 61-80
77. Sherr EB, Sherr BF, McDaniel J (1991) Clearance rates of < 6 μm fluorescently labelled algae (FLA) by estuarine protozoa: potential grazing impact of flagellates and ciliates. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 69:81-92
78. Sieracki ME, Haas LW, Caron DA, Lessard EJ (1987) Effect of fixation on particle retention by microflagellates: underestimation of grazing rates. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 38:251-258
79. Šimek K, Vrba J, Hartman P (1994) Size selective feeding by Cyclidium sp. on bacterioplankton and various sizes of cultured bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 14:157-168
80. Šimek K, Bobkova J, Macek M, Nedoma J, Psenner R (1995) Ciliate grazing on picoplankton in a eutrophic reservoir during the summer phytoplankton maximum: a study at the species and community level. Limnol Oceanogr 40: 1077-1090
81. Sime-Ngando T, Gosselin M, Roy S, Chanut JP (1995) Significance of planktonic ciliated protozoa in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary: comparison with bacterial, phytoplankton, and particulate organic carbon. Aquat Microb Ecol 9:243-258
82. Simon M, Azam F (1989) Protein content and protein synthesis rates of planktonic marine bacteria. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 51:201-213
83. Sournia A, Ricard M (1976) Données sur l'hydrologie et la productivité du lagon d'un atoll fermé (Takapoto, île Tuamotu). Vie Milieu 26:243-279
84. Strom SL, Morello TA (1998) Comparative growth rates and yields of ciliates and heterotrophic dinoflagellates. J Plankton Res 20:571-585
85. Tamigneaux E, Mingelbier M, Klein B, Legendre L (1997) Grazing by protists and seasonal changes in the size structure of protozooplankton and phytoplankton in a temperate nearshore environment (western Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada). Mar Ecol Prog Ser 146:231-247
86. Torréton JP, Dufour P (1996) Bacterioplankton production determined by DNA synthesis, protein synthesis, and frequency of dividing cells in Tuamotu Atoll lagoons and surrounding ocean. Microb Ecol 32:185-202
87. Utermöhl H (1931) Neue Wege in der quantitativen Erfassung des Planktons (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Ultraplanktons). Verh Int Ver Theor Angew Limnol 5: 567-596
88. Van Wambeke F, Christaki U, Gaudy R (1996) Carbon fluxes from the microbial food web to mesozooplankton. An approach in the surface layer of a pelagic area (NW Mediterranean Sea). Oceanol Acta 19:57-66
89. Verity PG (1991) Measurement and simulation of prey uptake by marine planktonic ciliates fed plastidic and aplastidic nanoplankton. Limnol Oceanogr 36:729-750
90. Verity PG, Smetacek V (1996) Organism life cycles, predation, and the structure of marine pelagic ecosystems. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 130:277-293
91. Vörös L, Balogh KV, Herodek S (1996) Microbial food web in a large shallow lake (Lake Balaton, Hungary). Hydrobiologia 339:57-65
92. Vors N (1992) Ultrastructure and autoecology of the marine heterotrophic flagellate Leucocryptos marina (Braarud) Butcher 1967 (Katablepharidaceae/Kathabelpharidae) with a discussion on the genera Leucocryptos and Katablepharis/Kathablepharis. Eur J Protistol 28:369-389
93. Weisse T (1989) The microbial loop in the Red Sea: dynamics of pelagic bacteria and heterotrophic nanoflagellates. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 55:241-250
94. Yoshinaga I, Fukami K, Ishida Y (1991) Comparison of DNA and protein synthesis rates of bacterial assemblages between coral reef waters and pelagic waters in tropical ocean. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 76:167-174
95. Zar JH (1984) Biostatistical analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs