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The stratified water column of the Black Sea is partitioned into oxic, suboxic, and euxinic zones, each characterized by different biogeochemical processes and by distinct microbial communities. In 2003, we collected particulate matter by large volume in situ filtration at the highest resolution to date for lipid biomarker analysis and bacterioplankton for enumeration of major prokaryotic groups. Abundances of several prokaryotic groups were estimated using CARD-FISH probes specific for Bacteria, Archaea (Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota), epsilonproteobacteria (mainly sulfide oxidizers) and sulfate reducing bacteria. We also measured a wide range of bacterial and archaeal lipid biomarkers. Depth distributions of diagnostic biomarkers are matched with zonation of microbial processes, including aerobic bacterial oxidation of methane, oxidation of ammonium by bacteria and archaea, metal reduction, and sulfide oxidation at the chemocline, and bacterial sulfate reduction and anaerobic oxidation of methane by archaea in the anoxic zone. Cell densities for archaea and sulfate reducing bacteria are estimated based on water column biomarker concentrations and compared with CARD-FISH results. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Wakeham S, Amann R, Freeman K, Hopmans E, Jørgensen B, Putnam I, Schouten S, Sinninghe Damsté J, Talbot HM, Woebken D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Organic Geochemistry
Year: 2007
Volume: 38
Issue: 12
Pages: 2070-2097
Print publication date: 01/12/2007
ISSN (print): 0146-6380
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5290
Publisher: Pergamon
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.08.003
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.08.003
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