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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 20 | NUMBER 8 | PAGES 1501-1525 | 1998
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Impacts of nutrients and zooplankton on the microbial food web of an ultra-oligotrophic lake
Department of Zoology, University of Otago P0 Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Received on January 15, 1998; accepted on April 3, 1998 In ultra-oligotrophic lakes and the sea, calanoid copepods are the dominant mesozoo-plankton and cladocerans are generally sparse or absent. To determine the effects of predation and nutrient enrichment on the pelagic microbial food web of an ultra-oligotrophic lake, we added copepods and cladocerans at low biomasses (<60 µg l–1 to in situ enclosures in Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand, in the presence and absence of added nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus). In response to nutrient fertilization, the concentrations of phototrophs >3 µm and heterotrophic bacteria increased by 50 and 15%, respectively, over 4 days, but those of cyanobacterial picoplankton decreased by 68%. The presence of calanoid copepods (Boeckella dilatata) at ambient densities (1 and 4 l–1) rapidly and severely suppressed ciliate population growth over 4 days and also lowered that of flagellates >3 µm, even when microbial growth was enhanced by added nutrients. The presence of a small cladoceran, Ceriodaphnia dubia, at double the densities, but similar biomasses, to those of copepods, depressed the net growth rates of ciliates and flagellates to a lesser degree. The net growth rate of heterotrophic bacteria after 4 days declined with flagellate abundance, consistent with the possibility of regulation by flagellates. Although bacteria and algae increased in response to nutrient fertilization (bottom-up control), predation (top-down control) appeared to play an important role in structuring the microbial food web of this ultra-oligotrophic lake in summer.
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