Microbiological Survey of Adirondack Lakes with Various pH Values
AUTOR(ES)
Boylen, Charles W.
RESUMO
Nine high-altitude oligotrophic Adirondack lakes in upstate New York having water of pH 4.3 to 7.0 were surveyed for total bacterial numbers and possible adaptation of the microbial communities to environmental pH. The number of heterotrophic bacteria from water samples recoverable on standard plate count agar were low (101 to 103 per ml) for most of the lakes. Acridine orange direct counts were approximately two orders of magnitude higher than plate counts for each lake. Sediment aerobic heterotrophs recovered on standard plate count agar ranged from 1.4 × 104 to 1.3 × 106 per g of sediment. Direct epifluorescence counts of bacteria in sediment samples ranged from 3.0 × 106 to 1.4 × 107 per g. Low density values were consistent with the oligotrophic nature of all the lakes surveyed. There were no apparent differences in numbers of bacteria originally isolated at pH 5.0 and pH 7.0 between circumneutral lakes (pH > 6.0) and acidic lakes (pH < 5.0). Approximately 1,200 isolates were recultured over a range of pH from 3.0 to 7.0. Regardless of the original isolation pH (pH 5.0 or pH 7.0), less than 10% of the isolates grew at pH < 5.0. Those originally isolated at pH 5.0 also grew at pH 6.0 and 7.0. Those originally isolated at pH 7.0 preferred pH 7.0, with 98% able to grow at pH 6.0 and 44% able to grow at pH 5.0. A chi-square contingency test clearly showed (P < 0.005) that two distinct heterotrophic populations had been originally isolated at pH 5.0 and pH 7.0, although there is undoubtedly some overlap between the two populations.
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