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Title: | Seasonal dynamics and net production of disolved organic carbon in an oligotrophic coastal environment |
Author: | Vila-Reixach, G. Gasol, Josep M. Cardelús, Clara Vidal Barcelona, Montserrat |
Keywords: | Compostos orgànics Costes Ecologia de les costes Metabolisme microbià Organic compounds Coasts Coastal ecology Microbial metabolism |
Issue Date: | 7-Jun-2012 |
Publisher: | Inter-Research |
Abstract: | To understand dissolved organic carbon (DOC) seasonal dynamics in a coastal oligotrophic site in the north-western Mediterranean Sea, we monitored DOC concentrations monthly over 3 yr, together with the meteorological data and the food-web-related biological processes involved in DOC dynamics. Additional DOC samples were taken in several inshore−offshore transects along the Catalan coast. We found DOC concentrations of ~60 µmol C l−1 in winter, with increasing values through the summer and autumn and reaching 100 to 120 µmol C l−1 in November. There was high inter-annual variability in this summer DOC accumulation, with values of 36, 69 and 13 µmol C l−1 for 2006, 2007 and 2008, respectively. The analysis of the microbial food-web processes involved in the DOC balance did not reveal the causes of this accumulation, since the only occasion on which we observed net DOC production (0.3 ± 1 µmol C l−1 d−1 on average) was in 2007, and the negative DOC balance of 2006 and 2008 did not prevent DOC accumulating. The DOC accumulation episodes coincided with low rates of water renewal (average 0.037 ± 0.021 d−1 from May to October) compared with those of winter to early spring (average 0.11 ± 0.048 d−1 from November to April). Indeed, the amount of DOC accumulated each year was inversely correlated with the average summer rainfall. We hypothesize that decreased DOC turn-over due to photochemical or biological processes mostly active during the summer and low water renewal rate combine to determine seasonal DOC accumulation and influence its inter-annual variability. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09677 |
It is part of: | Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2012, vol. 456, p. 7-19 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/53391 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09677 |
ISSN: | 0171-8630 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals) |
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