Spectroscopic study of the microbial community in chemocline zones of relic meromictic lakes separating from the White Sea

Anastasia V. Kharcheva; Elena D. Krasnova; Dmitry A. Voronov; Svetlana V. Patsaeva

doi:10.1117/12.2180066

19 March 2015 Spectroscopic study of the microbial community in chemocline zones of relic meromictic lakes separating from the White Sea

Anastasia V. Kharcheva, Elena D. Krasnova, Dmitry A. Voronov, Svetlana V. Patsaeva

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Proceedings Volume 9448, Saratov Fall Meeting 2014: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine XVI; Laser Physics and Photonics XVI; and Computational Biophysics; 94480I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2180066
Event: Saratov Fall Meeting 2014, 2014, Saratov, Russian Federation

Abstract

As a result of a recent years study on the Karelia shore of the White Sea more than ten relict lakes in different stages of separation from the sea have been discovered. Five of them are located close to the Nikolai Pertsov White Sea Biological Station of Moscow State University. Such separated lakes are interesting to explore for their firm vertical stratification. Water layers differ not only by temperature, salinity and other physic and chemical characteristics and optical properties, but also by ibhabiting microorganisms and by the quality of dissolved organic matter. To study phototropic organisms in water sampled from different depths we used spectroscopic techniques. Identification of the main bands in the absorption and fluorescence spectra showed that there are two main groups of photosynthetic organisms in the redox zone (chemocline): unicellular algae containing chlorophyll a and green sulfur bacteria with bacteriochlorophylls c, d, e. Spectral data were compared with physical and chemical characteristics of the water layer (temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen and sunlight illumination at certain depth). It gave an opportunity to compare vertical profiles of oxygen and hydrogen sulphide concentration with the number and distribution of oxygenic and anoxygenic phototrophic microorganisms. Maximum abundance of both algae and green sulfur bacteria were achieved within the redox zone. Typical thickness of the layer with the highest concentration of microorganisms did not exceed 10-20 cm.

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Anastasia V. Kharcheva, Elena D. Krasnova, Dmitry A. Voronov, and Svetlana V. Patsaeva "Spectroscopic study of the microbial community in chemocline zones of relic meromictic lakes separating from the White Sea", Proc. SPIE 9448, Saratov Fall Meeting 2014: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine XVI; Laser Physics and Photonics XVI; and Computational Biophysics, 94480I (19 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2180066

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