An Effect-Based Method to Evaluate Spatio-Temporal Variations of Coastal Marine DOM Properties

Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a key component of the global carbon cycle. While marine DOM properties are usually characterized by chemical approaches, an effort to integrate its variations in an ecological perspective is needed. Heterotrophic prokaryotes being the main consumers of marin...

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Published in:Journal of marine science and engineering 2023-10, Vol.11 (10), p.1841
Main Authors: Dignan, Clara, Lenoble, Véronique, Pringault, Olivier, Misson, Benjamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Carbon
Carbon cycle
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Catalytic oxidation
coastal ecosystem
Coastal environments
Coastal zones
Coasts
Dilution
Dissolved organic carbon
Dissolved organic matter
Ecology, environment
Experiments
Food chains
growth stimulation potential
Harbors
Harbours
Heterogeneity
heterotrophic prokaryotes
Hydrochloric acid
Influence
Life Sciences
Mediterranean sea
Methods
Microorganisms
Patchiness
Plankton
Prokaryotes
Properties
Seawater
Spatial heterogeneity
Temporal variations
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Summary:Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a key component of the global carbon cycle. While marine DOM properties are usually characterized by chemical approaches, an effort to integrate its variations in an ecological perspective is needed. Heterotrophic prokaryotes being the main consumers of marine DOM, targeting their responses to varying DOM properties provides an effect-based characterization of DOM properties. Dilution experiments of natural marine prokaryotic assemblages were used to assess the spatio-temporal heterogeneity of DOM properties in the coastal environment through its potential to stimulate heterotrophic prokaryotic growth. Reduced top-down pressures allowed to repeatedly evidence a stronger bottom-up stimulation potential of heterotrophic prokaryotes’ net growth with DOM collected in harbours under strong human and continental influence compared to DOM collected in more open coastal sites. Shedding the light on high spatial heterogeneity of DOM properties that corresponded only partly to dissolved organic carbon concentrations, this experimental approach represents a simple and reproducible method to improve our understanding of the marine DOM cycle.
ISSN:2077-1312
2077-1312
DOI:10.3390/jmse11101841