Why is bacterioplankton growth in coral reef framework cavities enhanced?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 299, Issue , 2005, Pages 89-99

  Scheffers, S R ^a,b,c,d   Bak, R P M ^a,c   Van Duyl, F C ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cavities; Coral reef; DIN; DIP; DOC; Growth rates; Heterotrophic bacteria; Nutrient limitation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CORAL REEF; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CURACAO; LESSER ANTILLES; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 26244467654     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps299089     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Ayukai T (1993) Temporal variability of the nutrient environment on Davies Reef in the Central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Pac Sci 47:171-179
2. Bak RPM, Joenje M, de Jong I, Lambrechts DYM, Nieuwland G (1998) Bacterial suspension feeding by coral reef benthic organisms. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 175:285-288
3. Bratbak G (1985) Bacterial biovolume and biomass estimations. Appl Environ Microbiol 49:1488-1493
4. Bratbak G, Thingstad TF (1985) Phytoplankton-bacteria interactions: an apparent paradox? Analysis of a model system with both competition and commensalism. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 25:23-30
5. Buss L, Jackson J (1981) Planktonic food availability and suspension-feeder abundance: evidence of in situ depletion. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 49:151-161
6. Button DK, Robertson B (2000) Properties of very small organisms. In: Size limits of very small organisms, Panel 2, proceedings of a workshop. Space Studies Bulletin, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
7. Capone DG, Dunham SE, Horrigan SG, Duguay LE (1992) Microbial nitrogen transformations in unconsolidated coral reef sediments. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 80:75-88
8. Carlson CA, Ducklow HW (1996) Growth of bacterioplankton and consumption of dissolved organic carbon in the Sargasso Sea. Aquat Microb Ecol 10:69-85
9. Carlson GA, Giovannoni SJ, Hansell DA, Goldberg SJ, Parsons R, Otero MP, Vergin K, Wheeler BR (2002) Effect of nutrient amendments on bacterioplankton production, community structure, and DOC utilization in the northwestern Sargasso Sea. Aquat Microb Ecol 30:19-36
10. Cotner JB, Ammerman JW, Peele ER, Bentzen E (1997) Phosphorus limited bacterioplankton growth in the Sargasso Sea. Aquat Microb Ecol 13:141-149
11. Del Giorgio P, Cole JJ (1998) Bacterial growth efficiency in natural aquatic systems. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 29:503-541
12. Ducklow HW, Mitchell R (1979) Bacterial populations and adaptations in the mucus layers on living corals. Limnol Oceanogr 24:715-725
13. Elser JJ, Stabler LB, Hassett RP (1995) Nutrient limitation of bacterial growth and rates of bacterivory in lakes and oceans: a comparative study. Aquat Microb Ecol 9:105-110
14. Fabricius KE, Dommisse M (2000) Depletion of suspended particulate matter over coastal reef communities dominated by zooxanthellate soft corals. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 196:157-167
15. 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
16. Ferrier-Pagès C, Leclercq N, Jaubert J, Pelegri SP (2000) Enhancement of pico- and nanoplankton growth by coral exudates. Aquat Microb Ecol 21:203-209
17. Fonnes Flaten GA, Castberg T, Tanaka T, Thingstad TF (2003) Interpretation of nutrient-enrichment bioassays looking at sub-populations in a marine bacterial community. Aquat Microb Ecol 33:11-18
18. Gast GJ, Wiegman S, Wieringa E, van Duyl FC, Bak RPM (1998) Bacteria in coral reef water types: removal of cells, stimulation of growth and mineralization. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 167:37-45
19. Gast GJ, Jonkers PJ, van Duyl FC, Bak RPM (1999) Bacteria, flagellates and nutrients in island fringing coral reef waters: influence of the ocean, the reef and eutrophication. Bull Mar Sci 65:523-538
20. Goldman JC, Dennett MR (1991) Ammonium regeneration and carbon utilization by marine bacteria grown on mixed substrates. Mar Biol 109:369-378
21. Goldman JC, Dennett MR (2000) Growth of marine bacteria in batch and continuous culture under carbon and nitrogen limitation. Limnol Oceanogr 45:789-800
22. Goldman JC, Caron DA, Dennett MR (1987) Regulation of gross growth efficiency and ammonium regeneration in bacteria by substrate C:N ratio. Limnol Oceanogr 32:1239-1252
23. Hatcher BG (1997) Organic production and decomposition. In: Birkeland C (ed) Life and death of coral reefs. Chapman & Hall, New York, p 140-175
24. Heil CA, Chaston K, Jones A, Bird P, Longstaff B, Constanzo S, Dennison WC (2004) Benthic microalgae in coral reef sediments of the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs 23:336-340
25. Herndl GJ (1993) Dialysis bag incubation as a nonradiolabeling technique to estimate bacterioplankton production in situ. In: Kemp PF, Sherr BF, Sherr EB, Cole JJ (eds) Handbook of methods in aquatic microbial ecology. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, p 553-556
26. Hobbie JE, Daley RJ, Jasper S (1977) Use of nuclepore filters for counting bacteria by fluorescence microscopy. Appl Environ Microbiol 33:1225-1228
27. Kirchman DL (2000) Uptake and regeneration of inorganic nutrients by marine heterotrophic bacteria. In: Kirchman DL (ed) Microbial ecology of the oceans. Wiley-Liss, New York, p 261-288
28. Landry MR, Haas LW, Fagerness VL (1984) Dynamics of microbial plankton communities: experiments in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 16:127-133
29. Lee S, Fuhrman JA (1987) Relationships between biovolume and biomass of naturally derived marine bacterioplankton. Appl Environ Microbiol 53:1298-1303
30. Middelboe M, Hagström Å, Blackburn N, Sinn B and 5 others (2001) Effects of bacteriophages on the population dynamics of four strains of pelagic marine bacteria. Microb Ecol 42:395-406
31. Moriarty DJW, Pollard PC, Hunt WG (1985) Temporal and spatial variation in bacterial production in the water column over a coral reef. Mar Biol 85:285-292
32. Moriarty DJW, Roberts DG, Pollard PC (1990) Primary and bacterial productivity of tropical seagrass communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 61:145-157
33. Paul JH, DeFlaun M, Jeffrey WH (1986) Elevated levels of microbial activity in the coral surface microlayer. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 33:29-40
34. Pile AJ (1999) Resource partitioning by Caribbean coral reef sponges: is there enough food for everyone? Mem Queensl Mus 44:457-461
35. Pomeroy LR, Sheldon JE, Sheldon WM Jr, Peters F (1995) Limits to growth and respiration of bacterioplankton in the Gulf of Mexico. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 117:259-268
36. Rasheed M, Badran MI, Richter C, Huettel M (2002) Effect of reef framework and bottom sediment on nutrient enrichment in a coral reef of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 239:277-285
37. Richter C, Wunsch M, Rasheed M, Kötter I, Badran MI (2001) Endoscopic exploration of Red Sea coral reefs reveals dense populations of cavity-dwelling sponges. Nature 413:726-730
38. Sala MM, Peters F, Gasol JM, Pedros-Alio C, Marasse C, Vaque D (2002) Seasonal and spatial variations in the nutrient limitation of bacterioplankton growth in the northwestern Mediterranean. Aquat Microb Ecol 27:47-56
39. Scheffers SR, de Goeij J, van Duyl FC, Bak RPM (2003) The cave-profiler: a simple tool to describe the 3D structure of inaccessible coral reef cavities. Coral Reefs 22:49-53
40. Scheffers SR, Nieuwland G, Bak RPM, van Duyl FC (2004) Removal of bacteria and nutrient dynamics within the coral reef framework of Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles). Coral Reefs 23:413-422
41. Shiah FK, Kao SJ, Liu KK (1998) Bacterial production in the western Equatorial Pacific: implications of inorganic nutrient effects on dissolved organic carbon accumulation and consumption. Bull Mar Sci 62(3):795-808
42. Strom L (2000) Bacterivory: interactions between bacteria and their grazers. In: Kirchman DL (ed) Microbial ecology of the oceans, Vol 12. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, p 351-386
43. Thingstad F (1987) Utilization of N, P and organic C by heterotrophic bacteria. I. Outline of a chemostat theory with a consistent concept of 'maintenance' metabolism. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 35:99-109
44. Thingstad TF, Rassoulzadegan F (1995) Nutrient limitations, microbial food webs, and 'biological C-pumps': suggested interactions in a P-limited Mediterranean. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 117:299-306
45. Thingstad TF, Zweifel UL, Rassoulzadegan F (1998) P limitation of heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton in the northwest Mediterranean. Limnol Oceanogr 43:88-94
46. Torréton JP, Talbot V, Garcia N (2000) Nutrient stimulation of bacterioplankton growth in Tuamotu atoll lagoons. Aquat Microb Ecol 21:125-137
47. Vadstein O, Jensen A, Olsen LM, Reinertsen HR (1988) Growth and phosphorus status of limnetic phytoplankton and bacteria. Limnol Oceanogr 33:489-503
48. Vadstein O, Olsen LM, Busch A, Andersen T, Reinertsen HR (2003) Is phosphorus limitation of heterotrophic bacteria and accumulation of degradable DOC a normal phenomenon in phosphorus limited systems? A microcosm study. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 46:307-316
49. van Duyl FC (1985) Atlas of the living reefs of Curaçao and Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles), Vol 117. Foundation for Scientific Research in Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles, Utrecht, p 1-63
50. van Duyl FC, Gast GJ (2001) Linkage of small-scale spatial variations in DOC, inorganic nutrients and bacterioplankton growth with different coral reef water types. Aquat Microb Ecol 24:17-26
51. van Duyl FC, Gast GJ, Steinhoff W, Kloff S, Veldhuis MJW, Bak RPM (2002) Factors influencing the short-term variation in phytoplankton composition and biomass in coral reef waters. Coral Reefs 21:293-306
52. van Duyl FC, Scheffers SR, Driscoll M, Thomas FIM (in press) The effect of water exchange on bacterioplankton depletion and inorganic nutrient dynamics in coral reef cavities. Coral Reefs
53. Wilcox RM, Fuhrman JA (1994) Bacterial viruses in coastal seawater: lytic rather than lysogenic production. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 114:35-45
54. Wild C, Huettel M, Klueter A, Kremb SG, Rasheed MYM, Jørgensen BB (2004) Coral mucus functions as an energy carrier and particle trap in the reef ecosystem. Nature 428:66-70
55. Yahel G, Post AF, Fabricius KE, Marie D, Vaulot D, Genin A (1998) Phytoplankton distribution and grazing near coral reefs. Limnol Oceanogr 43:551-563