期刊
AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
卷 75, 期 1, 页码 81-90出版社
INTER-RESEARCH
DOI: 10.3354/ame01747
关键词
Ecosystem functioning; Biogeochemical cycles; Prokaryotes; Viral infection; Marine sediments
资金
- FIRB Project EXPLODIVE
- National Research Council of the Italian Ministry Research (MIUR)
- EU
The deep-ocean interior contains the majority of microbes present on Earth. Most deep-sea microbes are concentrated in surface sediments, with abundances up to 4 orders of magnitude higher, per unit of volume, than in highly productive waters of the photic zone. To date, it has been shown that prokaryotic biomass largely dominates over all other biotic components, but the relative importance of Bacteria, Archaea and viruses to the global benthic biomass has not yet been quantified. Here, we report that the microbial abundance in the top 50 cm of deep-sea sediments of the world oceans is on the order of 1.5 +/- 0.4 x 10(29). This is largely represented by viruses (9.8 +/- 2.5 x 10(28)), followed by Bacteria (3.5 +/- 0.9 x 10(28) cells) and Archaea (1.4 +/- 0.4 x 10(28) cells). The overall biomass in the top 50 cm of the deep-sea sediments is 1.7 +/- 0.4 Pg C, largely represented by bacterial biomass (ca. 78%), followed by archaeal biomass (ca. 21%) and viruses (<1%). The bathymetric patterns of abundance and biomass of the 3 microbial components show differences: abundance and biomass of Bacteria decrease with increasing water depth, whereas those of Archaea and viruses remain constant. These results support the hypothesis that the role of Archaea and viruses could be more relevant in the deepest part of the ocean floor.
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