Variation in microbial biomass and community structure in sediments of peter the great bay (sea of japan/east sea), as estimated from fatty acid biomarkers |
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| Authors: | Natalia V Zhukova |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690041 Vladivostok, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Variation in the microbial biomass and community structure found in sediment of heavily polluted bays and the adjacent unpolluted
areas were examined using phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Total microbial biomass and microbial community structure were
responding to environmental determinants, sediment grain size, depth of sediment, and pollution due to petroleum hydrocarbons.
The marker fatty acids of microeukaryotes and prokaryotes - aerobic, anaerobic, and sulfate-reducing bacteria -were detected
in sediments of the areas studied. Analysis of the fatty acid profiles revealed wide variations in the community structure
in sediments, depending on the extent of pollution, sediment depth, and sediment grain size. The abundance of specific bacterial
fatty acids points to the dominance of prokaryotic organisms, whose composition differed among the stations. Fatty acid distributions
in sediments suggest the high contribution of aerobic bacteria. Sediments of polluted sites were significantly enriched with
anaerobic bacteria in comparison with clean areas. The contribution of this bacterial group increased with the depth of sediments.
Anaerobic bacteria were predominantly present in muddy sediments, as evidenced from the fatty acid profiles. Relatively high
concentrations of marker fatty acids of sulfate-reducing bacteria were associated with organic pollution in this site. Specific
fatty acids of microeukaryotes were more abundant in surface sediments than in deeper sediment layers. Among the microeukaryotes,
diatoms were an important component. Significant amounts of bacterial biomass, the predominance of bacterial biomarker fatty
acids with abundance of anaerobic and sulfate-reducing bacteria are indicative of a prokaryotic consortium responsive to organic
pollution. |
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| Keywords: | microbial community structure sediments fatty acids biomarkers |
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