Massive Regime Shifts and High Activity of Heterotrophic Bacteria in an Ice-Covered Lake

In winter 2009/10, a sudden under-ice bloom of heterotrophic bacteria occurred in the seasonally ice-covered, temperate, deep, oligotrophic Lake Stechlin (Germany). Extraordinarily high bacterial abundance and biomass were fueled by the breakdown of a massive bloom of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae after...

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Main Authors: Bižić-Ionescu, Mina, Amann, Rudolf, Grossart, Hans-Peter
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242651/