Relative importance of nutrients and mortality ... - Stéphan Jacquet

Bacterioplankton is mainly responsible for the recycling of nutrients and the decomposition of organic matter in freshwater ecosytems (Fisher et al., 2000).
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Relative importance of nutrients and mortality factors on prokaryotic community composition in two lakes of different trophic status Ludwig JARDILLIER (FEMS Microb Ecol, in revision)

Laboratory of Protist Biology UMR CNRS 6023 Clermont-Ferrand, FRANCE

The bacterioplankton ! Bacterioplankton is mainly responsible for the recycling of nutrients and the decomposition of organic matter in freshwater ecosytems (Fisher et al., 2000) ! Resources, predation & viral lysis are the main factors controlling bacterial dynamics ! Bottom-up and top-down controls seems to be more important in oligotrophic and eutrophic systems, respectively (Sanders et al., 1992).

The Prokaryotic Community Composition (PCC) ! Some studies have indicated variations in the Bacterial Community Composition (BCC) with time ! Many studies have shown that predation by protists and zooplankton can bring to changes in BCC ! Some seasonal studies or experiments have shown that resources influence BCC ! Current knowledge of the main factors controlling PCC is on the whole not well advanced

Questions ! What is the impact of predation, viruses and resources on prokaryotic communities (Eubacteria and Archaea)? ! What is the relative importance of each of these two variables? ! Does this relative importance depend on trophic status?

Study sites SEP RESERVOIR

AYDAT LAKE

OLIGO-MESOTROPHIC

EUTROPHIC

Altitude : 500 m

825 m Max depth :

37 m

15 m area :

33 ha

60 ha

Microcosms experiments < 1.2 µm

< 10 µm

Lake level = NP(-) Enrichment = NP(+) t=0h

t = 24 h

t = 48 h

CONCOMITANT CONTROL of: - predation by differential filtration -and resources level by enrichment

UNF

Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) DAPI-stained cells

FISH

Groups targeted and oligonucleotidic probes used : - Eubacteria : EUB338 - alpha-proteobacteria : ALF1b - beta-proteobacteria : BET42a - Cytophaga-Flavobacterium : CF319a - Archaea : ARCH915

T-RFLP : Bacterioplankton diversity

DNAg extraction

rDNA 16S Amplification

pb Hydrolysis with MspI, RsaI

T-RFs Analysis - Presence-absence - Relative area

Grazing rate measurements Fluorescent microspheres (0.5 µm)

Flagellates

Ciliates

Zooplankton

Grazing rates and dominant predators

Grazing rates (105 bact l-1 h-1)

20

Zooplankton Flagellates

15

SEP

79 %

10

Reservoir 76 %

5

21 %

24 %

0

< 10 µm

UNF NP (-)

< 10 µm

UNF NP (+)

Jardillier et al. 2004, Aquat Microb Ecol, 35: 259-273

Grazing rates and dominant predators 20

Zooplankton Flagellates

15

79 %

10

Reservoir 76 %

5 Grazing rates (105 bact l-1 h-1)

SEP

21 %

24 %

0

Zooplankton Ciliates Flagellates

20 15 10

49 % 17 % 34 %

5 0