Skip to main content

Table 2 Picocyanobacteria (Synechococcus spp), pigmented and heterotrophic nanoflagellates (PNF and HNF) abundances at the beginning (t0) and at the end (tfinal) of each incubation in the different experiments

From: Effect of grazers and viruses on bacterial community structure and production in two contrasting trophic lakes

Experiments and treatments

Abundance of:

  

Picocyanobacteria (104cell ml-1)

PNF (102cell ml-1)

HNF (102cell ml-1)

  

t0

tfinal

t0

tfinal

t0

tfinal

LA1

       
 

V

0.1 ± 0.0

0.3 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

 

VFA

6.5 ± 0.1

7.5 ± 0.1

4.5 ± 1.3

4.8 ± 0.5

6.2 ± 1.3

8.1 ± 1.4

 

VF

5.5 ± 0.1

2.4 ± 0.2

4.2 ± 0.2

6.6 ± 0.4

6.5 ± 0.9

8.0 ± 2.6

LA2

       
 

V

0.8 ± 0.4

0.3 ± 0.2

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

 

VFA

10.2 ± 0.1

15.8 ± 0.1

14.4 ± 0.6

28.5 ± 1.3

5.6 ± 0.2

11.1 ± 0.8

 

VF

11.2 ± 0.4

6.3 ± 0.3

14.0 ± 0.4

19.1 ± 0.1

5.4 ± 0.3

13.5 ± 0.8

LB1

       
 

V

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

 

VFA

0.8 ± 0.0

1.5 ± 0.1

1.3 ± 0.5

8.7 ± 0.5

2.5 ± 0.5

12.0 ± 1.7

 

VF

0.7 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.3

1.1 ± 0.7

6.5 ± 0.2

2.9 ± 0.6

12.4 ± 0.2

LB2

       
 

V

0.3 ± 0.0

0.5 ± 0.1

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

0.0 ± 0.0

 

VFA

7.3 ± 0.1

16.6 ± 2.1

2.5 ± 2.8

7.5 ± 8.9

3.6 ± 4.1

20.7 ± 11.7

 

VF

7.1 ± 0.7

3.1 ± 0.2

3.1 ± 1.5

12.5 ± 0.9

3.9 ± 4.0

13.8 ± 9.0

  1. V, Viruses+Bacteria treatments; VFA, Viruses+Bacteria+Flagellates+Autotrophs treatments; VF, Viruses+Bacteria+Flagellates treatments. LA1, LA2, LB1, LB2: abbreviations as in Table 1.