Chemolithoautotrophic production mediating the cycling of the greenhouse gases N2O and CH4 in an upwelling ecosystem

Biogeosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3053-3069

  Farias L ^a   Fernandez C ^a,b   Faundez J ^a   Cornejo, M ^a   Alcaman, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b Laboratoire d Océanographie Microbienne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; ELECTRON; GREENHOUSE GAS; INHIBITOR; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROUS OXIDE; OXIDATION; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PROKARYOTE; TIME SERIES; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

CHILE;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 73449123011     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-3053-2009     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Bakum, A.: Global climate changes and the intensification of coastal upwelling. Science, 241, 148-201,1990.
2. Bange, H., Rapsomanikis, S., and Andreae, M. O.: Nitrous oxide in coastal waters, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 10, 197-207, 1996.
3. Coban-Yildiz, Y., Altabet, M. A., Yilmaz, A., and Suleyman, S.: Carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios of suspended particulate organic matter (SPOM) in the Black Sea water columns, Deep Sea Res. II., 53, 1875-1892, 2006. (Pubitemid 44430249)
4. Cornejo, M., Fariás, L., and Gallegos, M.: Seasonal variability in N2O levels and air-sea N2O fluxes over the continental shelf waters off central Chile (-36- S), Prog. Oceanogr., 75, 383-395, 2007.
5. Crutzen, P. J.: Methane's sink and source, Nature, 350, 380-391, 1991.
6. Daneri, G., Dellarossa, V., Quiñones, R. A., Jacob, B., Montero, P., and Ulloa, O.: Primary production and community respiration in the Humboldt Current System off Chile and associated oceanic areas, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 197, 41-49, 2000.
7. Deutsch, C., Emerson, S. R., and Thompson, L.: Fingerprints of climate change in North Pacific oxygen, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L16604, doi:10.1029/2005GL023190, 2005. (Pubitemid 41461661)
8. Elkins, J. W., Wofsy, S. C., Mcelroy, M. B., Kolb, C., and Kaplan, W. A.: Aquatic sources and sinks for nitrous oxide, Nature, 275, 602-606, 1978.
9. Eppley, R. W.: New production: history, methods, problems, in: Productivity of the ocean: present and past, edited by: BergerW. H., Smetacek, V. S., and Wefer, G., John Wiley & Sons Limited, Chichester, New York, 85-97, 1989.
10. Escribano, R., Daneri, G., Fariás, L., Gallardo, V. A., González, H. E., Gutierrez, D., Lange, C. B., Morales, C. E., Pizarro, O., Ulloa, O., and Braun, M.: Biological and chemical consequences of the 1997-1998 El Niño in the Chilean coastal upwelling system: a synthesis, Deep Sea Res., 51, 2389-2411, 2004.
11. Fariás, L., Graco, M., and Ulloa, O.: Nitrogen cycling in continental shelf sediments of the upwelling ecosystem off central Chile, Deep Sea Res. II., 51, 2491-2505, 2004.
12. Fariás, L. and Cornejo, M.: Effect of seasonal change in bottom water oxygenation on sediment N-oxide and N2O cycling in the coastal upwelling regime off central Chile (36.5- S), Prog. Oceanogr., 75, 561-575, 2007.
13. Fariás, L., Castro-González, M., Cornejo, M., Charpentier, J., Fáundez, J., Boontanon, N., and Yoshida, N.: Denitrification and nitrous oxide cycling within the upper oxycline of the oxygen minimum zone off the eastern tropical South Pacific, Limnol. Oceanogr., 54, 132-144, 2009.
14. Fry, B., Jannasch, H. W., Molyneaux, S. J., Wirsen, C. O., Muramoto, J. A., and King, S.: Stable isotope studies of the carbon, nitrogen ans sulfur cycles in the Black Sea and Cariaco trench, Deep-Sea Res., 38, S1003-S1019,1991.
15. Ginestet, P., Audic, J., Urbain, V., and Block, J.: Estimation of nitrifying bacterial activities by measuring oxygen uptake in the presence of the metabolic inhibitors Allylthiourea and Azide, Appl. Environ. Microb., 64, 2266-2268, 1998.
16. Grantham, B. A., Chan, F., Nielsen, K., David, S., Fox, D. S., Barth, J. A., Huyer, A., Lubchenco, J., and Menge, B. A.: Upwellingdriven nearshore hypoxia signals ecosystem and oceanographic changes in the northerm Pacific, Nature, 429, 749-754, 2004.
17. Grasshoff, K., Ehrhardt, M., and Kremling, K.: Methods of seawater analysis: Second Edition. Springer-Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, 419 pp., 1983.
18. Hanson R. and Hanson, T. E.: Methanotrophic Bacteria, Microb. Rev., 60, 439-471, 2000.
19. Hayes, J. M.: Fractionation of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in biosynthetic processes, in: Stable isotope geochemistry, edited by: Valley J. W. and Cole, D. R., Rev. Mineral Geochem., 43, 225-278, 2001.
20. Helly, J. and Levin, L.: Global distribution of naturally occurring marine hypoxia on continental margins, Deep-Sea Res., 51, 1159-1168, 2004.
21. Ho, T.-Y., Taylor, G., Astor, Y., Varela, R., Taylor, G. T., and Scranton, M. I.: Vertical and temporal variability of redox zonation in the water column of the Cariaco: implications for organic carbon oxidation pathways, Mar. Chem., 86, 89-104, 2004.
22. Holmes, R. M., Aminot, A., Ḱerouel, R., Hooker, B. A., and Peterson, B. J.: A simple and precise method for measuring ammonium in marine and freshwater ecosystems, Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 56, 1801-1808, 1999.
23. IPCC.: Climate Change: The Scientific Basis, edited by: Houghton, J. T., Ding, Y., Griggs, D. J., Noguer, M., van der Linden, P. J., Dai, X., Maskell, K., and Johnson, C. A., Cambridge University Press, 2001.
24. Janson, P. B. M., Malandrin, L., and Johansson, H.: Cell cycle arrest in Archea by the Hypusination inhibitor N1-Guanyl-1, 7-Diaminoheptane, J. Bacteriol., 182, 1158-1161, 2000.
25. Jørgensen, B. B. and Gallardo, V. A.: Thioploca spp.: Filamentous sulfur bacteria with nitrate vacuoles, FEMS Microb. Ecol., 28, 301-313, 1999.
26. Jost, G., Zubkov, M. V., Yakushev, E., Labrenz, M., and Jurgens, K.: High abundance and dark CO2 fixation of chemolithotrophic prokaryoyes in anoxic water of the Baltic Sea, Limnol. Oceanogr., 53, 14-22, 2008.
27. Joyce, S. B. and Hollibaugh, J. T.: Influence of sulfide inhibition of nitrification on nitrogen regeneration in sediments, Science, 270, 623-625, 1995.
28. Labrenz, M., Jost, G., Pohl, C., Beckmann, S., Martens-Habbena, W., and Jürgens, K.: Impact of different in vitro Electron donor/acceptor conditions on potential chemolithoautotrophic communities from marine pelagic redoxclines, Appl. Environ. Microb., 71, 6664-6672, 2005.
29. Lavik, G., Stührmann, T., Brüchert, V., Van der Plas, A., Mohrholz, V., Lam, P., Mußmann, M., Fuchs, B. M., Amann, R., Lass, U., and Kuypers, M. M. M.: Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs, Nature, 457, 581-584, 2009.
30. Law, C. S. and Owens, N. J. P.: Significance flux of atmospheric nitrous oxide from the northwest Indian Ocean, Nature, 346, 826-828, 1990.
31. Lein, A. Y., Pimenov, N. V., and Galchenko, V. F.: Bacterial chemosynthesis and methanotrophy in the Manus and Lau basis ecosystems, Mar. Geol., 142, 47-56, 1997.
32. Levipan, H. A., Quiñones, R. A., and Urrutia, H.: A time series of prokaryote secondary production in the oxygen minimum zone of the Humboldt Current System, Prog. Oceanogr.,75, 531-549, 2007a.
33. Levipan, H. A., Quiñones, R. A., Johansson, H. E., and Urrutia, H.: Methylotrophic Methanogens in the Water Column of an Upwelling Zone with a Strong Oxygen Gradient Off Central Chile, Microb. Environ., 22, 268-278, 2007b.
34. Madigan, M., Martinko, J., and Parker, J.: Brock Biology of Microorganism. Nutrition and Metabolism, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1011 pp., 2003.
35. Naqvi, S.W. A., Jayakumar, D. A., Narvekar, P. V., Naik, H., Sarma, V. V., D'Souza, W., Joseph, S., and George, M. D.: Increased marine production of N2O due to intensifying anoxia on the Indian continental shelf, Nature, 408, 346-349, 2000.
36. Nevison, C. D., Weiss, R. F., and Erickson, D. J.: Global oceanic emissions of nitrous oxide, J. Geophys. Res, 100, 15809-15820, 1995.
37. Nevison, C. D., Lueker, T. J., and Weiss, R. F.: Quantifying the nitrous oxide source from coastal upwelling, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 18, GB1018, doi:10.1029/2003GB002110, 2004.
38. Owens, N. J. P., Law, C. S., Mantoura, R. F., Burkill, P. H., and Llewellyn, C. A.: Methane flux to the atmosphere from the Arabian Sea, Nature, 354, 293-296, 1991.
39. Pauly, D. and Christensen, V.: Primary production required to sustain global fisheries, Nature, 374, 255-257, 1995.
40. Pimenov, N. V. and Neretin, L.: Composition and activities of microbial communities involved in carbon, sulfur, nitrogen and manganese cycling in the oxic/anoxic interface of the Black Sea, edited by: Neretin, L. N., Past and present Water Column Anoxia. NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, 501-502, 2006.
41. Quiñones, R. A., Levipan, H. A., and Urrutia, H.: Spatial and temporal variability of planktonic archaeal abundance in the Humboldt Current System off Chile, Deep Sea Res II., 56(16), 1073-11072, 2009.
42. Rykaczewski, R. R. and Checkley Jr., D. M.: Influence of ocean winds on the pelagic ecosystem in upwelling regions, Poner el nombre complete, P. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105, 1965-1970, doi:10.1073pnas.0711777105, 2008.
43. Schubert, C. J., Coolen, M. J. L., Neretin, N. L., and Schippers, A.: Aerobic and anaerobic methanotrophs in the Black Sea water column, Environ. Microbiol., 8, 1844-1856, 2006.
44. Sobarzo, M. and Djurfeldt, L.: Coastal upwelling process on a continental shelf limited by submarine canyons, Concepci ́on, central Chile, J.Geophys. Res., 109, C12012, doi:10.1029/2004JC002350, 2004. (Pubitemid 40335118)
45. Slawyk, G. and Collos, Y.: 13C and 15N uptake by marine phytoplankton III. Interactions in euphotic zone profiles of stratified oceanic areas, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 19, 223-231, 1984.
46. Stramma, L., Johnson, G. C., Sprintall J., and Mohrholz, V.: Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans, Science, 320, 655-658, 2008.
47. Strub, P. T., Mesiás, J., Montecinos, V., Rutllant J., and Salinas, S.: Coastal ocean circulation off western south America, in: The Sea, edited by: Robinson A. R. and Brink, K. H, John Wiley & Sons, 273-313, 1998.
48. Taylor, G. T., Iabichella, M., Tung-yuan, H., Scranton, M., Thunell, R., Muller-Karger, F., and Varela, R.: Chemoautotrophy in the redox transition zone of the Cariaco Basin: A significant midwater source of organic carbon production, Limnol. Oceanogr., 46, 148-163, 2001.
49. Thamdrup, B. and Canfield, D. E.: Pathway of carbon oxidation in the continental margin off central Chile, Limnol.Oceanogr., 41, 1629-1650, 1996.
50. Trotsenko, Y. A. and Murrell, J. C.: Metabolic aspects of aerobic obligate methanotrophy, Adv. Appl. Microbiol., 63, 183-229, 2008.
51. Upstill-Goddard, R. C., Barnes, J., and Owens, N. J.: Nitrous oxide and methane during the SW mosoon in the Arabian Sea/northwestern Indian Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 30067-30084, 1999.
52. Wanninkhof, R.: Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 7373-7382, 1992.
53. Ward, B. B., Glover, H. E., and Lipschultz, F.: Chemoautotrophic activity and nitrification in the oxygen minimum zone off Peru, Deep Sea Res., 36, 1031-1051, 1989.
54. Weisenburg, D. A. and Guinasso, N. L.: Equilibrium solubilities of methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen in water and seawater, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 24, 354-360, 1979.
55. Weiss, R. F. and Price, B. A.: Nitrous oxide solubility in water and seawater, Mar. Chem., 8, 347-359, 1980.
56. Zopfi, J., Ferdelman, T. G., Jorgensen, B. B., Teske, A., and Thamdrup, B.: Influence of water columns dynamics on sulfide oxidation and other major biogeochemcial processes in the chemocline of Mariager Fkord (Denmark), Mar. Chem., 74, 29-51, 2001.