Microbial activity at the sediment-water interface in halifax harbor, Canada.

Abstract:

:The sediment-water interface in Halifax Harbor supports a microbial population of 6.95 x 10 cells per g (dry weight). As determined by the standard technique of suspending subsamples in filtered seawater, the uptake of added glutamic acid by this population is 113.5 ng g (dry weight) h. An alternate technique was developed to measure the heterotrophic activity of the interface over longer periods of time, using undisturbed cores with the sediment-water interface intact. Under these conditions, the microbes in the water column and the interface increased exponentially in number, with mean doubling times of 9.6 and 4.5 days, respectively. The uptake of glutamic acid by the microbial population of the interface was determined to be 12.7 ng g (dry weight) h, almost an order of magnitude less than the uptake determined by the previous method. This indicates that substrate diffusion and competition for substrate by the microbes in the water column are important factors when considering the heterotrophic activity of the sediment microbial population. After 48 h of incubation, uptake and respiration ceased, probably due to the exhaustion of labeled substrate. Additional substrate added after 48 h of incubation was taken up at a rate similar to that measured after the first addition. It appears that the microbial population of the interface is able to respond quickly and repeatedly to relatively large nutrient additions. After 10 days of incubation, the number of "viable" cells as determined by autoradiography was much smaller than the increase in numbers as determined by direct counts. Apparently a large part of the viable population is unaffected by nutrient addition.

journal_name

Appl Environ Microbiol

authors

Novitsky JA

doi

10.1128/AEM.45.6.1761-1766.1983

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1983-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1761-6

issue

6

eissn

0099-2240

issn

1098-5336

journal_volume

45

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