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Article Dans Une Revue Microbial ecology Année : 2005

Phage bacteriolysis, protistan bacterivory potential, and bacterial production in a freshwater reservoir : Coupling with temperature

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Phage abundance and infection of bacterioplankton were studied from March to November 2003 in the Sep Reservoir (Massif Central, France), together with temperature, chlorophyll, bacteria (abundance and production), and heterotrophic nanoflagellates (abundance and potential bacterivory). Virus abundance (VA) ranged from 0.6 to 13 × 1010 viruses l-1, exceeding bacterial abundance (BA) approximately sixfold on average. In terms of carbon, viruses corresponded to up to 25% of bacterial biomass. A multiple regression model indicated that BA was the best predictor for VA (R2 = 0.75). The frequency of infected bacteria (estimated from the percentage of visibly infected cells) varied from 1% to 32% and was best explained by a combination of temperature (R2 = 0.20) and bacterial production (R2 = 0.25). Viruses and flagellates contributed about equally to bacterial mortality. Both factors destroyed 55% of bacterial production, with a shift from phage bacteriolysis in early spring to protistan bacterivory in late summer. The vertical differences in most of the biological variables were not significant, contrasting with the seasonal differences (i.e., spring vs. summer-autumn). All biological variables under study were indeed significantly coupled to temperature. We regarded this to be the consequence of the enhanced discharge of the reservoir in 2003 (compared to previous years). This substantially weakened the stability and the thermal inertia of the water column, thereby establishing temperature as a stronger forcing factor in setting the conditions for optimal metabolic activity of microbial communities.
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Angia Sriram Pradeep Ram, D. Boucher, Télesphore Sime-Ngando, Didier Debroas, J. C. Romagoux. Phage bacteriolysis, protistan bacterivory potential, and bacterial production in a freshwater reservoir : Coupling with temperature. Microbial ecology, 2005, 50 (1), pp.64-72. ⟨hal-00527475⟩
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