The fate of intertidal microphytobenthos carbon: An in situ 13C‐labeling study

By Jack J. Middelburg, C. Barranguet, H. Boschker, P. Herman, Tom Moens, Carlo H. R. Heip. 2000

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Limited coupling of macrophyte production and bacterial carbon cycling in the sediments of Zostera spp. meadows (2000, background): “Furthermore, in another labeling study, Middelburg et al. (2000) showed that coupling between benthic micro-algae and bacteria is fast, with detectable transfer of label within 4 h and maximum labeling of the bacteria after 1 to 2 d.”
Carbon‐nitrogen coupling and algal‐bacterial interactions during an experimental bloom: Modeling a 13C tracer experiment (2004, methodology): “This value is significantly higher than that reported by Middelburg et al. (2000), c 5 0.035, but including an initial detritus concentration would only increase the estimated value (see below).”
Does terrestrial organic carbon subsidize the planktonic food web in a clear‐water lake? (2007, result): “This result is similar to results from benthic 13C additions, which illustrate that bacterial PLFA 18:1v7c tracks the 13C labeling of sediment POC (Middelburg et al. 2000).”
Bacteria and Foraminifera: key players in a short-term deep-sea benthic response to phytodetritus (2002, methodology): “…was then treated with 5% HCl in silver boats and the excess acid was removed by drying overnight at 40°C. Lipid extraction (from 3 g of lyophylized sediment per sediment interval) and carbon-isotopic analysis of PLFAs were done according to Boschker et al. (1999) and Middelburg et al. (2000).”
Carbon sources for demersal fish in the western Seto Inland Sea, Japan, examined by δ13C and δ15N analyses (2002, background): “Quantitatively important carbon transport from microphytobenthos to macrobenthic animals was recently confirmed in a tidal flat ecosystem with a stable isotope tracer-addition experiment and by analyzing natural isotope abundances (Herman et al. 2000; Middelburg et al. 2000).”
Integrating quantitative morphological and qualitative molecular methods to analyse soil nematode community responses to plant range expansion (2018, background): “…roles in various trophic levels of the soil food webs (Bongers & Bongers, 1998; Hunt et al., 1987), freshwater (Pusch et al., 1998; Traunspurger, 2000) and marine systems (Middelburg et al., 2000; Moens & Vincx, 2009), free- living, nonplant–feeding nematodes are also receiving increasing interest.”
Analysis of 15N incorporation into D‐alanine: A new method for tracing nitrogen uptake by bacteria (2005, background): “C-labeled substrates (Boschker et al. 1998; Middelburg et al. 2000; Moodley et al. 2000).”
Dynamics of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) production and loss in an estuarine, diatom‐dominated, microalgal biofilm over a tidal emersio—immersion period (2006, background): “These mucilages are important agents of sediment biostabilization (Underwood and Paterson 2003) and as a carbon source for heterotrophic organisms (Decho 1990; Middelburg et al. 2000).”
Different ingestion patterns of 13C-labeled bacteria and algae by deep-sea benthic foraminifera (2006, methodology): “Recently, 13C-labeled feeding experiments have demonstrated the rapid ingestion of phytodetritus by benthic macrofauna, meiofauna, and bacteria (Blair et al. 1996, Levin et al. 1999, Middelburg et al. 2000, Moodley et al. 2002, 2005, Witte et al. 2003a,b, Nomaki et al. 2005a).”
Effects of acid treatment on carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in ecological samples: a review and synthesis (2014, positive): “To identify the sources, transport routes and processing of organic matter in detrital and sediment compartments (Schlacher & Wooldridge 1996; Middelburg et al. 2000; Oakes, Eyre &Middelburg 2012); 2.”
Autochthonous and allochthonous contributions to mesozooplankton diet in a tidal river and estuary: Integrating carbon isotope and fatty acid constraints (2009, methodology): “The d13C of individual PLFAs was measured using gas chromatography-combustion IRMS (Middelburg et al. 2000; Van den Meersche et al. 2004).”
Interspecific and intraspecific variation of δC and δN in deposit‐ and suspension‐feeding bivalves (Macoma balthica and Cerastoderma edule): Evidence of ontogenetic changes in feeding mode of Macoma balthica (2004, background): “Fortunately stable isotopes have become a powerful tool to determine the diets of many organisms, especially omnivores and deposit feeders (Peterson and Fry 1987; Hentschel 1998; Vander Zanden and Rasmussen 1999; Herman et al. 2000; Middelburg et al. 2000; Riera et al. 1999, 2002; Post 2002).”
Dual stable isotope abundances unravel trophic position of estuarine nematodes (2005, background): “This corroborates the proposed importance of microphytobenthos as a principal carbon source for tidal £at nematodes (Riera et al., 1996; Middelburg et al., 2000; Moens et al., 2002), but not the suggestion that nematode communities in salt marshes additionally draw upon more refractory, vascular…”
Benthic community response to ice algae and phytoplankton in Ny Ålesund, Svalbard (2006, background): “3), which indicates that the 13C-enriched ice algae were being consumed (Middelburg et al. 2000).”
Significance of diatom-derived polymers in carbon flow dynamics within estuarine biofilms determined through isotopic enrichment (2009, methodology): “Middelburg et al. (2000) added seawater with 13C-bicarbonate to biofilms, and subsequent δ13C-values observed in bacterial PLFAs were attributed to utilization of labeled colloidal carbohydrates produced by diatoms.”
The fate of bacterial carbon in an intertidal sediment: Modeling an in situ isotope tracer experiment (2006, methodology): “These conversion factors have been used to convert PLFA concentrations to bacterial biomass and label incorporation in PLFAs to total bacterial label incorporation (Middelburg et al. 2000).”