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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 19 | NUMBER 1 | PAGES 97-111 | 1997
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Dissolved organic carbon released by zooplankton grazing activity-a high-quality substrate pool for bacteria

Bent H. Hygum, Jørgen W. Petersen and Morten Søndergaard1

Institute of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Roskilde University DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark 1Freshwater Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen Helsingørsgade 51, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark

Received on October 11, 1995; accepted on August 29, 1996 Experiments were designed to investigate whether processes related to zooplankton feeding have a positive effect on bacterial growth. Bacterial abundance and [3H]thymidine incorporation rates were followed in grazer-free batch cultures originally containing either Scenedesmus quadricauda or Rhodomonas lacustris as food sources, and Daphnia cucullata or Eudiaptomus graciloides as grazers. Compared with controls lacking either animals or algae, a significantly higher bacterial abundance and productivity occurred in cultures which contained both phyto- and zoo-plankton. The same experimental methodology was tested during the decline of a diatom spring bloom in a eutrophic, temperate lake. A significant increase in bacterial biomass was observed due to the grazing activity of in situ mesozooplankters during the clear-water phase. Our results demonstrated that the dissolved carbon pathway from mesozooplankton to bacteria averaged 57% (26–78%) of the algal carbon filtered from suspension.


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