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- Title
Variability in lake bacterial growth and primary production under lake ice: Evidence from early winter to spring melt.
- Authors
Kivilä, E. Henriikka; Prėskienis, Vilmantas; Gaudreault, Noémie; Girard, Catherine; Rautio, Milla
- Abstract
Climate change is causing seasonally ice‐covered lakes of the boreal region to undergo changes in their winter regime by altering patterns of precipitation and temperature, often reflected as reduced snow and ice cover duration. The duration, extent and quality of ice, and snow cover have a pivotal role for production and carbon cycling in lakes in winter, with potentially cascading effects for the following open water period. We investigated under‐ice carbon cycling by assessing bacterial growth (including bacterial production, bacterial respiration, and bacterial growth efficiency) and primary production at five water depths during early winter, midwinter, late winter and melting season in a boreal lake, and report significantly different temporal patterns. Bacterial respiration was dominant in early and midwinter, whereas the late winter and melting season were dominated by bacterial production. Multiple linear regression models indicated that high early winter bacterial respiration was associated with senescing phytoplankton, whereas bacterial production was promoted by the onset of spring processes. Collectively, bacterial growth indices were inherently linked with bacterioplankton community composition and specific biomarker taxa. Primary production under ice increased in late winter when light‐blocking snow cover melted, and primary production measured from the lake ice exceeded that of the water column at the melting season. Ice samples hosted diverse eukaryotic communities including photoautotrophs, suggesting that the habitat potential of the understudied lake ice and the role of ice for ecological processes at ice melt should be further explored.
- Subjects
ICE on rivers, lakes, etc.; SPRING; BACTERIAL growth; MICROBIAL respiration; WINTER; SNOW cover
- Publication
Limnology & Oceanography, 2023, Vol 68, Issue 11, p2603
- ISSN
0024-3590
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/lno.12447