Carbon- and Nitrogen-to-Volume Ratios of Bacterioplankton Grown under Different Nutritional Conditions
Carbon- and Nitrogen-to-Volume Ratios of Bacterioplankton Grown under Different Nutritional Conditions
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不同营养条件下生长的浮游细菌的碳氮体积比
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Yasunori Watanabe
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作者:
T. Nagata;Yasunori Watanabe
Carbon- and nitrogen-to-volume (C/V and N/V) ratios were determined for freshwater bacterial assemblages grown in lake water filtrate or in water enriched with nutrients (aqueous extract of lake seston, glucose, arginine, phosphate, or ammonium). Biovolume was measured by epifluorescence microphotography, and carbon and nitrogen biomasses were measured with a CHN analyzer. Despite large variations of nutritional conditions (i.e., the composition and concentration of the dissolved organic carbon) and different mean cell sizes of the bacterial assemblage (0.17 to 1.8 μm3 per cell), the C/V, N/V, and carbon-to-nitrogen weight ratios varied little (C/V ratio, 0.14 pg of C per μm3 [standard deviation, 0.057; n = 15]; N/V ratio, 0.027 pg of N per μm3 [standard deviation; 0.011, n = 15]; carbon-to-nitrogen weight ratio, 5.6 [standard deviation, 2.2, n = 15]). An average C/V ratio of 0.12 pg of C per μm3 that was derived from natural and cultured bacterial assemblages is proposed as an appropriate conversion factor for estimation of the biomass of freshwater bacteria.