Picophytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the Mississippi River plume and its adjacent waters |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Hongbin?LiuEmail author Michael?Dagg Lisa?Campbell Juanita?Urban-Rich |
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Institution: | 1.Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium,Chauvin;2.Department of Oceanography,Texas A&M University,College Station;3.Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences,University of Massachusetts-Boston,Boston |
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Abstract: | Picoplankton abundance and distribution in the Mississippi River plume and its adjacent waters were studied during two cruises
in April (high discharge) and October (low discharge) 2000 using flow cytometry. Concentrations of photosynthetic picoplankton,Synechococcus and picoeukaryotes were low in the turbid plume water but high in the coastal waters—i.e., the green waters resulting from
mixing of river and oceanic waters. In this region, three types ofSynechococcus, characterized by their phycoerythrin chromophore composition, were found:Synechococcus cells with a low phycourobilin to phycoerythrobilin ratio (PUB:PEB) occurred throughout the region and dominated the totalSymechococcus abundance during both seasons; high PUB:PEB cells, which are the dominant strains in the open or blue ocean, occurred only
at the outer shelf stations; and PEB-onlySynechococcus were abundant in most of the surveyed area during april, but were not observed during October.Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria only occurred at the oceanic stations, but extended farther inshore in October compared to April. This was
a consequence of the reduced discharge and plume size during October. Picophytoplankton were a less important component of
total phytoplankton biomass in the turbid river water and more important in the oligotrophic Gulf water. Seasonally, the contribution
of picophytoplankton to total phytoplankton biomass in the surveyed area was higher during low discharge in October than during
high discharge in April, even though the spring 2000 river discharge was unusually low and might not present a typical high
discharge scenario. The abundance of heterotrophic bacteria was weakly correlated to chlorophylla (chla) concentration, but better correlated to picophytoplankton biomass. A higher proportion of High DNA bacteria occurred in
the river-impacted regions during both seasons, with the ratio of High DNA bacteria to Low DNA bacteria significantly higher
in April. |
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