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The year-to-year variations of vertical distribution and biomass of anoxic phototrophic bacteria were studied during ice periods 2003–2005 and 2007–2008 in meromictic lakes Shira and Shunet (Southern Siberia, Russian Federation). The bacterial layers in chemocline of both lakes were sampled with a thin-layer hydraulic multi-syringe sampler. In winter, biomass of purple sulphur bacteria varied considerably depending on the amount of light penetrating into the chemocline through the ice and snow cover. In relatively weakly stratified, brackish Shira Lake, the depth of chemocline varied between winters, so that light intensity for purple sulphur bacteria inhabiting this zone differed. In Shira Lake, increased transparency of mixolimnion in winter, high chemocline position and absence of snow resulted in light intensity and biomass of purple sulphur bacteria exceeding the summer values in the chemocline of the lake. We could monitor snow cover at the lake surface using remote sensing and therefore estimate dynamics and amount of light under ice and its availability for phototrophic organisms. In Shunet Lake, the light intensities in the chemocline and biomasses of purple sulphur bacteria were always lower in winter than in summer, but the biomasses of green sulphur bacteria were similar.
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Acknowledgments
We thank Mr. Fedor Kozlov for assistance in winter sampling, Dr. Galina Kalacheva and Mrs. Inna Gladchenko for chemical analyses and all others who helped us in winter expeditions. We thank Prof. Kalevi Salonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) for helpful comments. This work was partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grants 09-05-00915-a and 09-04-01114-a, by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO), Grant 047.011.2004.030, by award no. PG07-002-1 of the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Russian Federation and US Civilian Research & Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CRDF), by Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Integrative Project No. 95, by Russian Academy of Sciences, Programme No. 23.15.
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Rogozin, D.Y., Zykov, V.V., Chernetsky, M.Y. et al. Effect of winter conditions on distributions of anoxic phototrophic bacteria in two meromictic lakes in Siberia, Russia. Aquat Ecol 43, 661–672 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-009-9270-7
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