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Inter-annual variability in marine coastal Antarctic bacterioplankton

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The dynamics of Antarctic coastal marine bacterioplankton has been studied over a 2-year period. Two field stations were sampled between one and three times a week in 1989 and 1991 in the “Terre Adélie” area. The survey included physicochemical (temperature and particulate organic matter) and bacteriological (total and heterotrophic counts, cell volume and frequency of dividing cells estimation) measurements. The results suggest that a strong interannual variability affects the total bacterial abundance, the mean cell volume, the percentage of free living cells and, to a lesser extent. the culturable saprophytic bacterial communities. The observed variability could be partly explained by a large deficit of solar irradiance during the 2nd year of study that may have affected sea ice and seawater primary production.

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  1. Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, Université P. et M. Curie U.A. 117, Laboratoire Arago, F-66650, Banyuls sur mer, France

    D. Delille & L. Mallard

  2. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Laboratoire d'écologie microbienne, Bat 405, Bd. du 11 November 1918, F-69100, Villevrbanne, France

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Delille, D., Mallard, L. & Rosiers, C. Inter-annual variability in marine coastal Antarctic bacterioplankton. Polar Biol 16, 19–25 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388731

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