Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecology 88 (2007): 1365–1378, doi:10.1890/06-0387
Description:
Bacterioplankton community composition was compared across 10 lakes and 14 streams within the catchment of Toolik Lake, a tundra lake in Arctic Alaska, during seven surveys conducted over three years using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of PCR-amplified rDNA. Bacterioplankton communities in streams draining tundra were very different than those in streams draining lakes. Communities in streams draining lakes were similar to communities in lakes. In a connected series of lakes and streams, the stream communities changed with distance from the upstream lake and with changes in water chemistry, suggesting inoculation and dilution with bacteria from soil waters or hyporheic zones. In the same system, lakes shared similar bacterioplankton communities (78% similar) that shifted gradually down the catchment. In contrast, unconnected lakes contained somewhat different communities (67% similar). We found evidence that dispersal influences bacterioplankton communities via advection and dilution (mass effects) in streams, and via inoculation and subsequent growth in lakes. The spatial pattern of bacterioplankton community composition was strongly influenced by interactions among soil water, stream, and lake environments. Our results reveal large differences in lake-specific and stream-specific bacterial community composition over restricted spatial scales (〈10 km) and suggest that geographic distance and connectivity influence the distribution of bacterioplankton communities across a landscape.
Description:
This research was supported in part by the University
of Michigan and University of Maryland, and by National
Science Foundation grants OPP-0408371, OPP-9911681, OPP-
9911278, DEB-0423385, DEB-9810222, and ATM-0423385.
Keywords:
Arctic
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Bacteria
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Bacterial production
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Bacterioplankton
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Biogeography
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Diversity
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Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis
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DGGE
;
Metacommunity
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
Format:
application/pdf
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