Comparison of Rates of Flagellate Bacterivory and Bacterial Production in a Marine Coastal System

AUTOR(ES)

Barcina, Isabel

RESUMO

Protozoan predation on bacteria and bacterioplankton secondary production were simultaneously determined in La Salvaje Beach water during 1990. Protozoan grazing on bacterioplankton was measured from fluorescently labeled bacterium uptake rates; estimates of bacterial secondary production were obtained from [3H]thymidine incorporation rates. Two different conversion factors were used to transform thymidine incorporation rates into bacterial production rates; both of them were specific for La Salvaje Beach and were calculated by using empirical and semitheoretical approaches. The average flagellate predation rate was 14.0 bacteria flagellate-1 h-1; the average population predation rate was 7.35 x 106 bacteria liter-1 h-1. The estimates of bacterial production differed greatly depending on the conversion factor used, and so did the percentages of bacterial production consumed by flagellated protozoa (4.6% when the empirical conversion factor for La Salvaje Beach was used and 113% when the semitheoretical conversion factor specific for this system was used). The ecological implications of each of these values are discussed.

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