Influence of ciliated protozoa and heterotrophic nanoflagellates on the fate of primary production in the northeast Atlantic Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Karayanni, Hera ^a,b   Christaki, Urania ^b,c   Van Wambeke, France ^a   Denis, Michel ^a   Moutin, Thierry ^d  

^a STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^d STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTOZOAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ALGAE; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; OLIGOTRICHS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROTOZOA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TINTINNIDA;

EID: 24944547341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002602     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Beers, J. R., and G. L. Stewart (1967), Microzooplankton in the euphotic zone at five locations across the California Current, J. Fish. Res. Board Can., 24, 2053-2068.
2. Bernard, C., and F. Rassoulzadegan (1990), Bacteria or microflagellates as a major food source for marine ciliates: Possible implications for the microzooplankton, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 64, 147-155.
3. Bernard, C., and F. Rassoulzadegan (1993), The role of picoplankton (cyanobacteria and plastidic picoflagellates) in the diet of tintinnids, J. Plankton Res., 15, 361-373.
4. Børsheim, K. Y., and G. Bratbak (1987), Cell volume to cell carbon conversion factors for a bacterivorous Monas sp. enriched from sea water, Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser, 36,171-179.
5. Burkill, P. H. (1982), Ciliates and other microplankton components of nearshore food-web: Standing stocks and production processes, Ann. Inst. Oceanogr. Paris, 58, 335-350.
6. Burkill, P. H., E. S. Edwards, A. W. G. John, and M. A. Sleigh (1993), Microzooplankton and their herbivorous activity in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Deep Sea Res., Part II, 40, 479-493.
7. Burkill, P. H., E. S. Edwards, and M. A. Sleigh (1995), Microzooplankton and their role in controlling phytoplankton growth in the marginal ice zone of the Bellingshausen Sea, Deep Sea Res., Part II, 42, 1227-1290.
8. Cailliau, C., H. Claustre, F. Vidussi, D. Marie, and D. Vaulot (1996), Carbon biomass, and gross growth rates as estimated from 14C pigment labelling, during photoacclimation in Prochlorococcus CCMP 1378, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 145, 209-221.
9. Caron, D. A., E. L. Lim, G. Miceli, J. B. Waterbury, and F. W. Valois (1991), Grazing and utilization of chroococcoid cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria by protozoa in laboratory cultures and a coastal plankton community, Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser., 76, 205-217.
10. Christaki, U., J. R. Dolan, S. Pelegri, and F. Rassoulzadegan (1998), Consumption of picoplankton-size particles by marine ciliates: Effects of physiological state of the ciliate and particle quality, Limnol. Oceanogr., 43, 458-464.
11. Christaki, U., S. Jacquet, J. R. Dolan, D. Vaulot, and F. Rassoulzadegan (1999), Growth and gazing on Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus by two marine ciliates, Limnol. Oceanogr, 44, 52-61.
12. Christaki, U., A. Giannakourou, F. Van Wambeke, and G. Grégori (2001), Nanoflagellate predation on auto- and heterotrophic picoplankton in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea, J. Plankton Res., 23, 1297-1310.
13. Christaki, U., C. Courties, H. Karayanni, A. Giannakourou, C. Maravelias, A. K. Kormas, and P. Lebaron (2002), Dynamic characteristics of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus consumption by bacterivorous nanoflagellates, Microbial Ecol., 43, 341-352.
14. Dolan, J. R., and C. Marassé (1995), Planktonic ciliate distribution relative to a deep chlorophyll maximum: Catalan Sea, N. W. Mediterranean, June 1993, Deep Sea Res., Part I, 42, 1965-1987.
15. Dolan, J. R., and K. Simek (1997), Processing of ingested matter in Strombidium sulcatum, a marine ciliate (Oligotrichida), Limnol. Oceanogr., 42, 393-397.
16. Dolan, J. R., and K. Šimek (1999), Diel periodicity in Synechococcus populations and grazing by heterotrophic nanoflagellates: Analysis of food vacuole contents, Limnol. Oceanogr., 44, 1565-1570.
17. Dolan, J. R., F. Vidussi, and H. Claustre (1999), Planktonic ciliates in the Mediterranean Sea: Longitudinal trends, Deep Sea Res., Part I, 46, 2025-2039.
18. Fernandez, I. C., P. Raimbault, G. Caniaux, N. Garcia, and P. Rimmelin (2005), Influence of mesoscale eddies on nitrate distribution during the POMME program in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, J. Mar Syst., 55, 155-175.
19. Fortier, L., J. Le Fevre, and L. Legendre (1994), Export of biogenic carbon to fish and deep ocean: The role of large planktonic microphages, J. Plankton Res., 16, 809-839.
20. Gifford, D. J., L. M. Fessenden, P. R. Garrahan, and E. Martin (1995), Grazing by microzooplankton and mesozooplankton in the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean: Spring versus summer dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 6665-6675.
21. Gilron, G. L., and D. H. Lynn (1989), Assuming a 50% cell occupancy of the lorica overestimates tintinnide ciliate biomass, Mar. Biol., 103, 413-416.
22. Gorsky, G., M. J. Chrétiennot-Dinet, J. Blanchot, and L. Palazzoli (1999), Picoplankton and nanoplankton aggregation by appendicularians: Fecal pellet contents of Meglocercus huxleyi in the equatorial Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 3381-3390.
23. Heinbokel, J. F., and J. R. Beers (1979), Studies on the functional role of tintinnids in the Southern California Bight. Ill. Grazing impact of natural assemblages, Mar. Biol., 52, 23-32.
24. Jörgensen, E. (1924), Mediterranean Tintinnidae, in Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas, vol. 2, J.3, edited by A. F. Høst et al., 110 pp., Copenhagen.
25. -1 on marine Synechococcus WH 7803-I: Growth pigmentation and cell composition, Deep Sea Res., Part A, 34, 479-516.
26. Karayanni, H., U. Christaki, F. Van Wambeke, and A. P. Dalby (2004), Evaluation of double formalin-Lugol's fixation in assessing number and biomass of ciliates: An example of estimations at mesoscale in NE Atlantic, J. Microbiol. Methods, 56, 349-358.
27. Kofoid, C. A., and A. S. Campbell (1929), A conspectus of the marine and fresh-water Ciliata belonging to the suborder Tintinnoinea, with descriptions of new species principally from the Agassiz Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1904-1905, in University of California Publications in Zoology, vol. 34, 403 pp., Univ. of Calif. Press, Berkeley.
28. Kopylov, A. L, and N. I. Tumantseva (1987), Analysis of the contents of tintinnid vacuoles and evaluation of their contribution to the consumption of phytoplankton off the Peru coast, Oceanology, 27, 243-347.
29. Kuipers, B. R., and H. J. Witte (2000), Prochlorophytes as secondary prey for heterotrophic nanoflagellates in the deep chlorophyll maximum layer of the (sub)tropical North Atlantic, Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser., 204, 53-63.
30. Kuosa, H. (1991), Picoplanktonic algae in the northern Baltic Sea: Seasonal dynamics and flagellate grazing, Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser., 73, 269-271.
31. Landry, M. R., and R. P. Hassett (1982), Estimating the grazing impact of marine microzooplankton, Mar. Biol., 67, 283-288.
32. Leaky R. J. G., P. H. Burkill, and M. A, Sleigh (1996), Planktonic ciliates in the northwestern Indian Ocean: Their abundance and biomass in waters of contrasting productivity, J. Plankton Res., 18, 1063-1071.
33. Leblanc, K., A. Leynaert, I. C. Fernandez, P. Rimmelin, T. Moutin, P. Raimbault, J. Ras and B. Queguiner (200), A seasonal study of diatom dynamics in the North Atlantic during the POMME experiment (200l): Evidence for Si limitation of the spring bloom, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JC002621, in press.
34. Leppanen, J. M., and J. E. Bruun (1986), The role of pelagic ciliates including the autotrophic Mesodinium rubrum during the spring bloom of 1982 in the open northern Baltic proper, Ophelia, 4, 147-157.
35. Lewis, M. R. (1989), The variegated ocean: View from space, New Sci., 1685, 37-40.
36. Maar, M., T. G. Nielsen, K. Richardson, U. Christaki, O. S. Hansen, T. Zervoudaki, and E. D. Christou (2002), Spatial and temporal variability of food web structure during the spring bloom in the Skagerrak, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 239, 11-29.
37. Maeda, M. (1986), An illustrated guide to the species of the families Halteriidae and Strobilidiidae (Oligoirichida, Ciliophora) free swimming protozoa common in the aquatic environment, in Bulletin of the Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, vol. 21, edited by T. Asai et al., 67 pp., University of Tokyo.
38. Maeda, M., and P. G. Carey (1985), An illustrated guide to the species of the family Strombidiidae (Oligotrichida, Ciliophora), free swimming protozoa common in the aquatic environment, in Bulletin of the Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, vol. 19, edited by T. Asai et al., 68 pp., University of Tokyo.
39. Maixanideau, A., et al. (2005), Microbial community production, respiration, and structure of the microbial food web of an ecosystem in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/ 2004JC002694, in press.
40. Montagnes, D. J. S., and D. H. Lynn (1991), Taxonomy of Choreotrichs, the major marine planktonic ciliates, with emphasis on the aloricate forms, Mar. Microbiol. Food Webs, 5, 159-74.
41. Moutin, T., and P. Raimbault (2002), Primary production, carbon export and nutrients availability in western and eastern Mediterranean Sea in early summer 1996, J. Mar Syst., 33-34, 273 -288.
42. Pace, M. L., G. B. McManus, and S. E. G. Findlay (1990), Planktonic community structure determines the fate of bacterial production in a temperate lake, Limnol. Oceanogr, 35, 795-808.
43. Paillet, J., and M. Arhan (1996), Shallow pycnoclines and mode water subduction mi the eastern North Atlantic, J. Phys. Oceanogr, 26, 96-114.
44. Pérez, M. T., J. R. Dolan, F. Vidussi, and E. Fukai (2000), Diel vertical distribution of planktonic ciliates within the surface layer of the NW Mediterranean (May 1995), Deep Sea Res., Part I, 47, 479-503.
45. Pitta, P., A. Giannakourou, and U. Christaki (2001), Planktonic ciliates in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea: Longitudinal trends of standing stocks, distributions and analysis of food vacuole contents, Aquat. Microbiol. Ecol., 24, 297-311.
46. Porter, K. G., and Y. S. Feig (1980), The use of DAPI for identifying and counting aquatic microflora, Limnol. Oceanogr, 25, 943 -948.
47. Putt, M., and D. K. Stoecker (1989), An experimentally determined carbon: Volume ratio for marine "oligotrichous" ciliates from estuarine and coastal waters, Limnol. Oceanogr., 34, 1097-1103.
48. Quevedo, M., and R. Anadón (2001), Protist control of phytoplankton growth in the subtropical north-east Atlantic, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser, 121, 29-38.
49. Rassoulzadegan, F., and M. Etienne (198 1), Grazing of the tintinnid Stenosemella ventricosa (Clap. & Laclun.) Jörg. on the spectrum of naturally occurring particulate matter from a Mediterranean neritic area, Limnol. Oceanogr, 26, 258-270.
50. Rassoulzadegan, F., M. Laval-Peuto, and R. W. Sheldon (1988), Partitioning of the food ration of marine ciliates between pico- and nanoplankton, Hydrobiologia, 159, 75 - 88.
51. Rublee, P. A., and C. L. Gallegos (1989), Use of fluorescently labelled algae (FLA) to estimate microzooplankton grazing, Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser, 51, 221-227.
52. Sakka, A., L. Legendre, M. Gosselin, and B. Delegalle (2000), Structure of the oligotrophic planktonic food web under low grazing of heterotrophic bacteria: Takapoto Atoll, French Polynesia, Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser, 197, 1-17.
53. Sanders, R. W., U. G. Beminger, F. L. Lim, P. F. Kemp, and D. A. Caron (2000), Heterotrohic and mixotrophic nonplankton predation on picoplankton in the Sargasso Sea and Georges Bank, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser, 192, 103-118.
54. Sherr, B. F., E. B. Sherr, and R. D. Fallon (1987), Use of moriodispersed, fluorescently labeled bacteria to estimate in situ protozoan bacterivory, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 53, 958-965.
55. Sherr, E. B., B. F. Sherr, and J. McDaniel (1991), Clearance rates of <6 μ fluoresceiitly labelled algae (FLA) by estuarine protozoa: Potential grazing impact of flagellates and ciliates, Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser, 69, 81-92.
56. Šimek, K., J. Bobková, M. Macek, J. Nedorna, and R. Psenner (1995), Ciliate grazing on picoplankton in a eutrophic reservoir during the summer phytoplankton maximum: A study at the species cormnunity level; Limnol. Oceanogr, 40, 1077-1090.
57. Sime-Ngando, T., K. Juniper, and A. V6zina (1992), Ciliated protozoan communities over Cobb Seamount: Increase in biomass and spatial patchiness, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser, 89, 37-51.
58. Stelfox-Widdicombe, C. E., E. S. Edwards, P. H. Burkill, and M. A. Sleigh (2000), Microzooplankton grazing activity in the temperate and sub-tropical NE Atlantic: Summer 1996, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser, 208, 1-12.
59. Stoecker, D. K., M. E. Sieracki, P. G. Verity, A. E. Michaels, E. Haugen, P. H. Burkill, and E. S. Edwards (1994), Nanoplankton and protozoan microzooplankton during the JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment: 1989 and 1990, J. Mar. Biol. Assoc., 74, 427-443.
60. Troussellier, M., C. Courties, and S. Zettlemaier (1995), Flow cytometric analysis of coastal lagoon bacterioplankton and Incophytoplankton: Fixation and storage effects, East. Coastal Shelf Res., 40, 621 - 623.
61. Tsuda, A., K. Furuya, and T. Nernoto (1989), Feeding of micro- and macrozooplankton at the subsurface chlorophyll maximum in the subtropical North Pacific, J. Explor. Mar Biol. Ecol., 132, 41-52.
62. Verity, P. G. (1988), Chemosensory behavior in marine planktonic ciliates, Bull. Mar. Sci., 43, 772-782.
63. Verity, P. G., D. K. Stoecker, M. E. Sieracki, and J. R. Nelson (1993), Grazing, growth and mortality of microzooplankton during the 1989 North Atlantic spring bloom at 47°N, 18°W, Deep Sea Res., Part 1, 40, 1793-1814.
64. Weeks, A., et al. (1993), The physical and chemical environment and changes in community structure associated with bloom evolution: The Joint Global Flux Study North Atlantic Bloom Experiment, Deep Sea Res., Part 11, 40, 347-368.