Abstract
The role of photosynthetic sulphur bacteria as primary producers in monomictic Lake Vechten (The Netherlands) is described. Lake Vechten has a surface area of 4.7 ha, a maximum depth of 11.9 m and a mean depth of 6 m.
Bacterial populations, appearing at the boundary layer of the oxidative and reductive zone from early June till late October, were composed of cyanobacteria, Chromatiaceae and green and brown coloured Chlorobiaceae. Predominating genera were Synechococcus, Chloronema, Chromatium and Thiopedia. The photosynthetic sulphur bacteria accounted for a primary production rate of 13.6–106.1 mg C.m-2 day-1, which corresponded to 3.9–17.5% of total daily productivity in the pelagial zone. The percentage of photosynthetic bacterial production of total annual planktonic primary production calculated for the entire pelagial zone, taking into account compensation for decreasing volume of lower strata, was 3.6% (i.e. 127 against a total production of 3 510 kg C.lake-1yr-1).
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Steenbergen, C.L.M. (1982). Contribution of photosynthetic sulphur bacteria to primary production in Lake Vechten. In: Gulati, R.D., Parma, D.S. (eds) Studies on Lake Vechten and Tjeukemeer, The Netherlands. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8015-0_5
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