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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1982 April; 43(4): 769-776

Production and Vertical Flux of Attached Bacteria in the Hudson River Plume of the New York Bight as Studied with Floating Sediment Traps

¹ Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964; Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138²; and Division of Oceanographic Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973³

ABSTRACT

We investigated the growth and vertical flux of attached bacteria with floating sediment traps in the Hudson River Plume of the New York Bight during the spring diatom blooms. Traps were floated at the base of the mixed layer (ca. 10 m) for 1-day periods. After recovery, we measured bacterial abundance and rates of [methyl-³H]thymidine incorporation in the trap samples. The vertical flux of attached bacteria was estimated with a model formulated to distinguish between bacterial accumulation in traps due to in situ growth and that due to vertical flux. Attached bacterial flux ranged from 0.6 x 10¹¹ to 2.0 x 10¹¹ cells m^–2 day^–1, and attached bacterial settling rates of 0.1 to 1.0 m day^–1 were observed during periods of vertical particulate organic carbon flux ranging from 254 to 1,267 mg of C m^–2 day^–1. In situ growth of bacteria in sediment traps was unimportant as a source of bacterial increase when compared with vertical flux during our study. The vertical flux of attached bacteria removed 3 to 67% of the total daily bacterial production from the water column. Particulate organic carbon is not significantly mineralized by attached bacteria during its descent to the sea floor in the plume area during this period, when water temperature and grazing rates are at their annual minima.

Contribution no. 3291 from Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University.

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