2007
DOI: 10.15666/aeer/0601_029047
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Bacterial (Free Living and Particle Bound) Cell- Size in the Surface Waters of River Cauvery and Its Upstream Tributaries in Karnataka State, India

Abstract: Abstract. Cell-size here refers to mean length, as only the lengths of bacterial cells were measured in this study. Cell breadths were not measured, hence calculation of biovolume and biomass was not possible. In this study, the mean cell-lengths of heterotrophic bacterioplankton as well as their relation with environmental (water-quality) variables were analyzed for two years in the main river Cauvery and its four important upstream tributaries from February 2000 to January 2002. The initial hypothesis that a… Show more

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“…This has been done mainly at regional scale (Mahadevaswamy et al 2008;Zmuda 2005) or in relation with protistan grazing pressure (Pernthaler et al 1996;Simek et al 2001).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This has been done mainly at regional scale (Mahadevaswamy et al 2008;Zmuda 2005) or in relation with protistan grazing pressure (Pernthaler et al 1996;Simek et al 2001).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is likely that water temperature acted simultaneously with other factors (the quality and quantity of organic nutrients, phytoplankton activity, flagellate grazing), controlling microbial dynamics [50]. In any case, contrary to deterministic temperature-size rules, which predicted larger body size or genome size in cold environments than at high temperatures [16,51,52], it cannot be excluded that in winter, VOL might have been sensitive to thermal stress as seen in riverine and deep-sea environments [2,21].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The shape and size of individual organisms are key parameters to characterize their ecology. Such trait-based studies suggest a significant ecological role in structuring the planktonic food web in relation to bottom-up/top-down controls [2]. In fact, in aquatic systems, protozoan predation is selective on the size and shape of prokaryotic cells (top-down pressure) [3], and bottom-up control affects the variability in microbial community phenotypic traits [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%