DOI: 10.1002/2017JC013047
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85044753934
论文题名: On the Relationship Between Hydrogen Saturation in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and Nitrogen Fixation by the Symbiotic Diazotroph UCYN-A
作者: Moore R.M. ; Grefe I. ; Zorz J. ; Shan S. ; Thompson K. ; Ratten J. ; LaRoche J.
刊名: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
ISSN: 21699275
出版年: 2018
卷: 123, 期: 4 起始页码: 2353
结束页码: 2362
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Nitrogen fixation
; oceanic hydrogen saturation
; UCYN-A nifH
Scopus关键词: comparative study
; concentration (composition)
; gene
; hydrogen
; nitrogen fixation
; sampling
; saturation
; supersaturation
; symbiosis
; Atlantic Ocean
; Atlantic Ocean (Tropical)
; Cape Verde [Macaronesia]
; Guadeloupe
; Leeward Islands [Lesser Antilles]
; Trichodesmium
英文摘要: Dissolved hydrogen measurements were made at high resolution in surface waters along a tropical north Atlantic transect between Guadeloupe and Cape Verde in 2015 (Meteor 116). Parallel water samples acquired to assess the relative abundance of the nifH gene from several types of diazotrophs, indicated that Trichodesmium and UCYN-A were dominant in this region. We show that a high degree of correlation exists between the hydrogen saturations and UCYN-A nifH abundance, and a weak correlation with Trichodesmium. The findings suggest that nitrogen fixation by UCYN-A is a major contributor to hydrogen supersaturations in this region of the ocean. The ratio of hydrogen released to nitrogen fixed has not been determined for this symbiont, but the indications are that it may be high in comparison with the small number of diazotrophs for which the ratio has been measured in laboratory cultures. We speculate that this would be consistent with the diazotroph being an exosymbiont on its haptophyte host. Our high resolution measurements of hydrogen concentrations are capable of illustrating the time and space scales of inferred activity of diazotrophs in near real-time in a way that cannot be achieved by biological sampling and rate measurements requiring incubations with 15N2. Direct measurement of high resolution spatial variability would be relatively challenging through collection and analysis of biological samples by qPCR, and extremely challenging by 15N-uptake techniques, neither of which methods yields real-time data. Nonetheless, determination of fixation rates still firmly depends on the established procedure of incubations in the presence of 15N2. © 2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/114159
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作者单位: Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; Now at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom; Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Moore R.M.,Grefe I.,Zorz J.,et al. On the Relationship Between Hydrogen Saturation in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and Nitrogen Fixation by the Symbiotic Diazotroph UCYN-A[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,2018-01-01,123(4)