Phytoplankton Responses to Bacterially Regenerated Iron in a Southern Ocean Eddy - Chimie-Océan-Climat
Article Dans Une Revue Microorganisms Année : 2022

Phytoplankton Responses to Bacterially Regenerated Iron in a Southern Ocean Eddy

Marion Fourquez
Robert Strzepek
Michael Ellwood
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Christel Hassler
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Damien Cabanes
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Sam Eggins
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Imojen Pearce
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Stacy Deppeler
Thomas Trull
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Philip Boyd
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In the Subantarctic sector of the Southern Ocean, vertical entrainment of iron (Fe) triggers the seasonal productivity cycle but diminishing physical supply during the spring to summer transition forces microbial assemblages to rapidly acclimate. Here, we tested how phytoplankton and bacteria within an isolated eddy respond to different dissolved Fe (DFe)/ligand inputs. We used three treatments: one that mimicked the entrainment of new DFe (Fe-NEW), another in which DFe was supplied from bacterial regeneration of particles (Fe-REG), and a control with no addition of DFe (Fe-NO). After 6 days, 3.5 (Fe-NO, Fe-NEW) to 5-fold (Fe-REG) increases in Chlorophyll a were observed. These responses of the phytoplankton community were best explained by the differences between the treatments in the amount of DFe recycled during the incubation (Fe-REG, 15% recycled c.f. 40% Fe-NEW, 60% Fe-NO). This additional recycling was more likely mediated by bacteria. By day 6, bacterial production was comparable between Fe-NO and Fe-NEW but was approximately two-fold higher in Fe-REG. A preferential response of phytoplankton (haptophyte-dominated) relative to high nucleic acid (HNA) bacteria was also found in the Fe-REG treatment while the relative proportion of diatoms increased faster in the Fe-NEW and Fe-NO treatments. Comparisons between light and dark incubations further confirmed the competition between picophytoplankton and HNA for DFe. Overall, our results demonstrate great versatility by microorganisms to use different Fe sources that results in highly efficient Fe recycling within surface waters. This study also encourages future research to further investigate the interactions between functional groups of microbes (e.g. HNA and cyanobacteria) to better constraint modeling in Fe and carbon biogeochemical cycles.
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hal-03959676 , version 1 (07-02-2023)

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Marion Fourquez, Robert Strzepek, Michael Ellwood, Christel Hassler, Damien Cabanes, et al.. Phytoplankton Responses to Bacterially Regenerated Iron in a Southern Ocean Eddy. Microorganisms, 2022, 10 (8), pp.1655. ⟨10.3390/microorganisms10081655⟩. ⟨hal-03959676⟩
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