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Bioreactivity Of Estuarine Dissolved Organic Matter: A Combined Geochemical And Microbiological Approach, Sl Mccallister, Je Bauer, Elizabeth A. Canuel
Bioreactivity Of Estuarine Dissolved Organic Matter: A Combined Geochemical And Microbiological Approach, Sl Mccallister, Je Bauer, Elizabeth A. Canuel
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An integrated multidisciplinary study utilizing geochemical and microbial ecological approaches was conducted to characterize the origins, chemical nature, and quantities of dissolved and particulate organic matter (OM) utilized by heterotrophic bacteria in a temperate estuary. C: N, stable isotope (delta C-13), and lipid biomarker analyses revealed differences in the inferred reactivity of autochthonous versus allochthonous OM sources. Isotopic comparison of OM size fractions and bacterial nucleic acids suggests that high-molecular-weight dissolved OM (DOM) is consistently linked to bacterial biomass synthesis along the estuarine salinity gradient. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (as percent of total fatty acids, FA) were a reliable predictor of …