Benthic prokaryotic community dynamics along the Ardencaple Canyon, Western Greenland Sea

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• 作者：Nadia-Valé ; rie Qué ; ric^a ; ^{nqueric@gwdg.de} ; Thomas Soltwedel^b ; ¹ ; ^{Thomas.Soltwedel@awi.de}
• 关键词：Benthic bacterial community ; Canyons ; Habitat heterogeneity ; Deep-sea sediments ; T-RFLP
• 刊名：Sedimentary Geology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：81_00370738
• 类别：ear
• 出版时间：1 July, 2012
• 卷：263-264
• 期：Complete
• 页码：36-44
• 文件大小：972 K

摘要

The Ardencaple Canyon, emanating from the Eastern Greenland continental rise over a distance of about 200 km towards the Greenland Basin, was investigated to determine the effect of enhanced down-slope transport mechanisms on deep-sea benthic prokaryotic communities.

The concentration of viable bacterial cells (Live/Dead庐BacLight) and prokaryotic incorporation rates (³H-thymidine, ¹⁴C-leucine) increased with increasing distance from the continental shelf. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) results from terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis indicated a spatial coherence between the benthic bacterial community structure, prokaryotic incorporation rates, water content, protein concentration and the total organic matter in the sediments. The community complexity in sediments at 4-5 cm depth was lower in the central parts of the channel compared with the northern and the southern levees, while richness in surface sediments of all stations was similar. Lacking any clear indications for a recent mass sediment transport or funneled shelf drainage flows, high similarities between bacterial assemblages in sediments along the canyon course may thus be governed by a combination of an ice-edge induced particle flux, episodic down-slope and canyon-guided transport mechanisms.