Distribution of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the Central Pacific Ocean |
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| Authors: | Yoshiharu Maruyama Nobuo Taga Osamu Matsuda |
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| Institution: | (1) Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The plate culture method using the two formulae for non-nitrogenous media was adopted in this investigation for the purpose
of counting and isolating nitrogen-fixing bacteria distributed in the open sea.
Sea water samples were collected at eighteen different stations in the region of Lat. 50°N–15°S along Long. 155°W and two
other stations in the Pacific Ocean. In order to compare with those samples from the open sea, water samples were also obtained
at four stations in Suruga and Sagami Bays.
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria appear to be widely but very unevenly distributed at all depths in sea water, in numbers approximately
ranging from nil to 104 per 100 ml of sea water, and denser vertical populations have been found in the area of Lat. 40°N and 5°N along Long. 155°W, even at
depths from 2,000 to 3,000m. A conparatively denser population of bacteria was found in sea water from Suruga Bay and Sagami
Bay.
The bacteria associated with plankton were abundantly demonstrated, in numbers ranging from 106 to 108 per 1 ml settling volume of plankton, in many plankton samples collected at four stations in the southern parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Almost all the bacteria isolated from the samples of blue green algal colonies,Trichodesmium, sp., were able to grow on nonnitrogeneous media. |
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