Microphytobenthos in Shallow Arctic Lakes: Fine-Scale Depth Distribution of Chlorophyll a, Radiocarbon Assimilation, Irradiance, and Dissolved O₂

References Cited

• Bachmann, R. , Hoyer, M. , and Canfield, D. , 2000: The potential for wave disturbance in shallow Florida lakes. Lake and Reservoir Management , 16: 281–291.
   Google Scholar
• Björk-Ramberg, S. , 1983: Production of epipelic algae before and during lake fertilization in a subarctic lake. Holarctic Ecology , 6: 349–355.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Björk-Ramberg, S. , and Ånell, C. , 1985: Production and chlorophyll concentration of epipelic and epilithic algae in fertilized and nonfertilized subarctic lakes. Hydrobiologia , 126: 213–219.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blanchard, G. , and Cariou-Le Gall, V. , 1994: Photosynthetic characteristics of microphytobenthos in Marennes-Oléron Bay, France: preliminary results. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology , 182: 1–14.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bloesch, J. , 1995: Mechanisms, measurement and importance of sediment resuspension in lakes. Marine and Freshwater Research , 46: 295–304.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brunberg, A. , Nilsson, E. , and Blomqvist, P. , 2002: Characteristics of oligotrophic hardwater lakes in a postglacial land-rise area in midSweden. Freshwater Biology , 47: 1451–1462.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carlton, R. , and Wetzel, R. , 1988: Phosphorus flux from lake sediments: effect of epipelic algal oxygen production. Limnology and Oceanography , 33: 562–570.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cartaxana, P. , Mendes, C. , van Leeuwe, M. , and Brotas, V. , 2006: Comparative study on microphytobenthic pigments of muddy and sandy intertidal sediments of the Tagus estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science , 66: 225–230.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cornwell, J. , and Kipphut, G. , 1992: Biogeochemistry of manganeseand iron-rich sediments in Toolik Lake, Alaska. Hydrobiologia , 240: 45–59.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cyr, H. , 1998: How does the vertical distribution of chlorophyll vary in littoral sediments of small lakes? Freshwater Biology , 40: 25–40.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davis, M. , and McIntire, C. D. , 1983: Effects of physical gradients on the production dynamics of sediment-associated algae. Marine Ecology Progress Series , 13: 103–114.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dodds, W. , 1992: A modified fiber-optic light microprobe to measure spherically integrated photosynthetic photon flux density: characterization of periphyton photosynthesis-irradiance patterns. Limnology and Oceanography , 37: 871–878.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dodds, W. , 2003: The role of periphyton in phosphorus retention in shallow freshwater aquatic systems. Journal of Phycology , 39: 840–849.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dodds, W. , Biggs, B. , and Lowe, R. , 1999: Photosynthesis irradiance patterns in benthic microalgae: variations as a function of assemblage thickness and community structure. Journal of Phycology , 35: 42–53.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dodds, W. K. , 1989: Microscale vertical profiles Of N2 fixation, photosynthesis, O2, chlorophyll a, and light in a cyanobacterial assemblage. Applied and Environmental Microbiology , 55: 882–886.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Downing, J. , Prairie, Y. , Cole, J. , Duarte, C. , Tranvik, L. , Striegl, R. , McDowell, W. , Kortelainen, P. , Caraco, N. , and Melack, J. , 2006: The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments. Limnology and Oceanography , 51: 2388–2397.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fortino, K. , Hershey, A. , Keyse, M. , and Whalen, S. , 2009: Summer sedimentation in six shallow Arctic lakes. Hydrobiologia , 621: 75–84.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frenzel, P. , Thebrath, B. , and Conrad, R. , 1990: Oxidation of methane in the oxic surface layer of a deep lake sediment (Lake Constance). FEMS Microbiology Letters , 73: 149–158.
   Google Scholar
• Geider, R. , Osborne, B. , and Raven, J. , 1985: Light effects on growth and photosynthesis in Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology , 21: 609–619.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerbersdorf, S. , Meyercordt, J. , and Meyer-Reil, L. , 2005: Microphytobenthic primary production in the Bodden estuaries, southern Baltic Sea, at two study sites differing in trophic status. Aquatic Microbial Ecology , 41: 181–198.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gerhardt, S. , Brune, A. , and Schink, B. , 2005: Dynamics of redox changes of iron caused by light-dark variations in littoral sediment of a freshwater lake. Biogeochemistry , 74: 323–339.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gettel, G. , Giblin, A. , and Howarth, R. , 2007: The effects of grazing by the snail, Lymnaea elodes, on benthic N2 fixation and primary production in oligotrophic, Arctic lakes. Limnology and Oceanography , 52: 2398.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glud, R. , Woelfel, J. , Karsten, U. , Kuhl, M. , and Rysgaard, S. , 2009: Benthic microalgal production in the Arctic: applied methods and status of the current database. Botanica Marina , 52: 559–571.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hamilton, D. , and Mitchell, S. , 1997: Wave induced shear stresses, plant nutrients and chlorophyll in seven shallow lakes. Freshwater Biology , 38: 159–168.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hamilton, P. , Gajewski, K. , Atkinson, D. , and Lean, D. , 2001: Physical and chemical limnology of 204 lakes from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Hydrobiologia , 457: 133–148.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hansson, L. , 1992: Factors regulating periphytic algal biomass. Limnology and Oceanography , 37: 322–328.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hecky, R. , and Hesslein, R. , 1995: Contributions of benthic algae to lake food webs as revealed by stable isotope analysis. Journal of the North American Benthological Society , 14: 631–653.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Herlory, O. , Guarini, J. , Richard, P. , and Blanchard, G. , 2004: Microstructure of microphytobenthic biofilm and its spatio-temporal dynamics in an intertidal mudflat (Aiguillon Bay, France). Marine Ecology Progress Series , 282: 33–44.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hickman, M. , and Round, F. , 1970: Primary production and standing crops of epipsammic and epipelic algae. British Phycological Journal , 5: 247–255.
   Google Scholar
• Hilton, J. , 1985: A conceptual framework for predicting the occurrence of sediment focusing and sediment redistribution in small lakes. Limnology and Oceanography , 30: 1131–1143.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hobbie, J. , 1984: Polar limnology. In Taub, F. (ed.), Ecosystems of the World: Lakes and Reservoirs. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 63–105.
   Google Scholar
• Jørgensen, B. , and Des Marais, D. , 1986: A simple fiber-optic microprobe for high resolution light measurements: application in marine sediment. Limnology and Oceanography , 31: 1376–1383.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Khondker, M. , and Dokulil, M. , 1988: Seasonality, biomass and primary productivity of epipelic algae in a shallow lake (Neusiedlersee, Austria). Acta Hydrochimica et Hydrobiologica , 16: 499–515.
   Google Scholar
• Kirk, J. , 1994: Light and Photosynthesis in Aquatic Ecosystems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kling, G. , O'Brien, W. , Miller, M. , and Hershey, A. , 1992: The biogeochemistry and zoogeography of lakes and rivers in Arctic Alaska. Hydrobiologia , 240: 1–14.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koschorreck, M. , and Tittel, J. , 2002: Benthic photosynthesis in an acidic mining lake (pH 2.6). Limnology and Oceanography , 47: 1197–1201.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kromkamp, J. , and Forster, R. , 2006: Developments in microphytobenthos primary productivity studies. In Kromkamp, J. , de Brouwer, J. , Blanchard, G. , Forster, R. , and Créach, V. (eds.), Functioning of Microphytobenthos in Estuaries: Proceedings of the Colloquium, Amsterdam, 21–23 August 2003. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 9–30.
   Google Scholar
• Kühl, M. , Lassen, C. , and Revsbech, N. P. , 1997: A simple light meter for measurements of PAR (400 to 700 nm) with fiber-optic microprobes: application for P vs E o (PAR) measurements in a microbial mat. Aquatic Microbial Ecology , 13: 197–207.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• LaPerriere, J. , Jones, J. , and Swanson, D. , 2003: Limnology of lakes in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Lake and Reservoir Management , 19: 108–121.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lassen, C. , Ploug, H , and Jørgensen, B. B. , 1992: A fibre-optic scalar irradiance microsensor: application for spectral light measurements in sediments. FEMS Microbiology Letters , 86: 247–254.
   Google Scholar
• Levine, M. , and Whalen, S. , 2001: Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton production in Alaskan Arctic foothill lakes. Hydrobiologia , 455: 189–201.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lim, D. , Douglas, M. , Smol, J. , and Lean, D. , 2001: Physical and chemical limnological characteristics of 38 lakes and ponds on Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic. International Review of Hydrobiology , 86: 1–22.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lorenzen, J. , Larsen, L. H. , Kjaer, T. , and Revsbech, N-P. , 1998: Biosensor determination of the microscale distribution of nitrate, nitrate assimilation, nitrification, and denitrification in a diatom-inhabited freshwater sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology , 64: 3264–3269.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacIntyre, H. , and Cullen, J. , 1995: Fine-scale vertical resolution of chlorophyll and photosynthetic parameters in shallow-water benthos. Marine Ecology Progress Series , 122: 227–237.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacIntyre, H. , Geider, R. , and Miller, D. , 1996: Microphytobenthos: The ecological role of the “secret garden” of unvegetated, shallowwater marine habitats. I. Distribution, abundance and primary production. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science , 19: 186–201.
   Google Scholar
• Martin, P. , Goddeeris, B. , and Martens, K. , 1993: Oxygen concentration profiles in soft sediment of Lake Baikal (Russia) near the Selenga delta. Freshwater Biology , 29: 343–349.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martin, P. , Granina, L. , Martens, K. , and Goddeeris, B. , 1998: Oxygen concentration profiles in sediments of two ancient lakes: Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia) and Lake Malawi (East Africa). Hydrobiologia , 367: 163–174.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Michelutti, N. , Douglas, M. , Lean, D. , and Smol, J. , 2002: Physical and chemical limnology of 34 ultra-oligotrophic lakes and ponds near Wynniatt Bay, Victoria Island, Arctic Canada. Hydrobiologia , 482: 1–13.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nienhuis, P. , and De Bree, B. , 1984: Carbon fixation and chlorophyll in bottom sediments of brackish Lake Grevelingen, The Netherlands 1. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research , 18: 337–359.
   Google Scholar
• Percival, J. B. , and Lindsay, P. J. , 1997: Measurement of physical properties of sediments. In Mudroch, A. , Azcue, J. M. , and Mudroch, P. (eds.), Manual of Physico-chemical Analysis of Aquatic Sediments. Boca Raton, Florida: Lewis, 7–45.
   Google Scholar
• Peters, E. , and Thomas, D. , 1996: Prolonged darkness and diatom mortality I: marine Antarctic species. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology , 207: 25–41.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pienitz, R. , Smol, J. , and Lean, D. , 1997a: Physical and chemical limnology of 59 lakes located between the southern Yukon and the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Northwest Territories (Canada). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 54: 330–346.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pienitz, R. , Smol, J. , and Lean, D. , 1997b: Physical and chemical limnology of 24 lakes located between Yellowknife and Contwoyto Lake, Northwest Territories (Canada). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 54: 347–358.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pinckney, J. , and Zingmark, R. , 1993: Modeling the annual production of intertidal benthic microalgae in estuarine ecosystems I. Journal of Phycology , 29: 396–407.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ping, C. , Bockheim, J. , Kimble, J. , Michaelson, G. , and Walker, D. , 1998: Characteristics of cryogenic soils along a latitudinal transect in Arctic Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research , 103: 28, 917–28,928.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ploug, H. , Lassen, C. , and Jørgensen, B. , 1993: Action spectra of microalgal photosynthesis and depth distribution of spectral scalar irradiance in a coastal marine sediment of Limfjorden, Denmark. FEMS Microbiology Letters , 102: 261–270.
   Google Scholar
• Poulí ková, A. , Hašler, P. , Lysáková, M. , and Spears, B. , 2008: The ecology of freshwater epipelic algae: an update. Phycologia , 47: 437–450.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Quesada, A. , Fernández-Valiente, E. , Hawes, I. , and Howard-Williams, C. , 2008: Benthic primary production in polar lakes and rivers. In Vincent, W. , and Laybourn-Parry, J. (eds.), Polar Lakes and Rivers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 179–196.
   Google Scholar
• Ramlal, P. , Hesslein, R. , Hecky, R. , Fee, E. , Rudd, J. , and Guildford, S. , 1994: The organic carbon budget of a shallow Arctic tundra lake on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, NWT, Canada. Biogeochemistry , 24: 145–172.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rasmussen, H. , and Jørgensen, B. , 1992: Microelectrode studies of seasonal oxygen uptake in a coastal sediment: Role of molecular diffusion. Marine Ecology Progress Series , 81: 289–303.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reimers, C. , 2007: Applications of microelectrodes to problems in chemical oceanography. Chemical Reviews , 107: 590–600.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Revsbech, N. , and Jørgensen, B. , 1986: Microelectrodes: their use in microbial ecology. Advances in Microbial Ecology , 9: 293–352.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Revsbech, N. , Jørgensen, B. , and Brix, O. , 1981 : Primary production of microalgae in sediments measured by oxygen microprofile, H14CO3- fixation, and oxygen exchange methods. Limnology and Oceanography , 26: 717–730.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Round, F. , and Eaton, J. , 1966: Persistent, vertical-migration rhythms in benthic microflora. III. The rhythm of epipelic algae in a freshwater pond. Journal of Ecology , 54: 609–615.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sass, H. , Cypionka, H. , and Babenzien, H. , 1997: Vertical distribution of sulfate reducing bacteria at the oxic anoxic interface in sediments of the oligotrophic Lake Stechlin. FEMS Microbiology Ecology , 22: 245–255.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schindler, D. , and Scheuerell, M. , 2002: Habitat coupling in lake ecosystems. Oikos , 98: 177–189.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sierszen, M. , McDonald, M. , and Jensen, D. , 2003: Benthos as the basis for Arctic lake food webs. Aquatic Ecology , 37: 437–445.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Spears, B. , Funnell, J. , Saunders, J. , and Paterson, D. , 2007: On the boundaries: sediment stability measurement across aquatic ecosystems. In Westrich, B. , and Fostner, U. (eds.), Sediment Dynamics and Pollutant Mobility in Rivers: an Interdisciplinary Approach. New York: Springer, 68–79.
   Google Scholar
• Spears, B. , Carvalho, L. , Perkins, R. , and Paterson, D. , 2008: Effects of light on sediment nutrient flux and water column nutrient stoichiometry in a shallow lake. Water Research , 42: 977–986.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stanley, D. , 1976: Productivity of epipelic algae in tundra ponds and a lake near Barrow, Alaska. Ecology , 57: 1015–1024.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stevenson, R. J. , Bothwell, M. L. , and Lowe, R. L. (eds.), 1996: Algal Ecology: Freshwater Benthic Ecosystems. San Diego: Academic Press, 753 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Sweerts, J. , Rudd, J. , and Kelly, C. , 1986: Metabolic activities in flocculent surface sediments and underlying sandy littoral sediments. Limnology and Oceanography , 31: 330–338.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sweerts, J. , Louis, V. , and Cappenberg, T. , 1989: Oxygen concentration profiles and exchange in sediment cores with circulated overlying water. Freshwater Biology , 21: 401–409.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sweerts, J. , Bär-Gilissen, M. , Cornelese, A. , and Cappenberg, T. , 1991: Oxygen-consuming processes at the profundal and littoral sedimentwater interface of a small meso-eutrophic lake (Lake Vechten, The Netherlands). Limnology and Oceanography , 36: 1124–1133.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tankéré, S. , Bourne, D. , Muller, F. , and Torsvik, V. , 2002: Microenvironments and microbial community structure in sediments. Environmental Microbiology , 4: 97–105.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Underwood, G. , and Kromkamp, J. , 1999: Primary production by phytoplankton and microphytobenthos in estuaries. Advances in Ecological Research , 29: 93–153.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vadeboncoeur, Y. , and Steinman, A. D. , 2002: Periphyton function in lake ecosystems. Scientific World Journal , 2: 1–20.
   Google Scholar
• Vadeboncoeur, Y. , Vander Zanden, M. , and Lodge, D. , 2002: Putting the lake back together: reintegrating benthic pathways into lake food web models. Bioscience , 52: 44–54.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vadeboncoeur, Y. , Peterson, G. , Vander Zanden, M. , and Kalff, J. , 2008: Benthic algal production across lake size gradients: interactions among morphometry, nutrients, and light. Ecology , 89: 2542–2552.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Van Luijn, F. , Van der Molen, D. , Luttmer, W. , and Boers, P. , 1995: Influence of benthic diatoms on the nutrient release from sediments of shallow lakes recovering from eutrophication. Water Science and Technology , 32: 89–97.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vander Zanden, M. , Essington, T. E. , and Vadeboncoeur, Y. , 2005: Is pelagic top-down control in lakes augmented by benthic energy pathways? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 62: 1422–1431.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vander Zanden, M. , Chandra, S. , Park, S. , Vadeboncoeur, Y. , and Goldman, C. , 2006: Efficiencies of benthic and pelagic trophic pathways in a subalpine lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 63: 2608–2620.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Varela, M. , and Penas, E. , 1985: Primary production of benthic microalgae in an intertidal sandflat of the Ria de Arosa, NW Spain. Marine Ecology Progress Series , 25: 111–119.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vopel, K. , and Hawes, I. , 2006: Photosynthetic performance of benthic microbial mats in Lake Hoare, Antarctica. Limnology and Oceanography , 51: 1801–1812.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wahrhaftig, C. , 1965: Physiographic Divisions of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 482.
   Google Scholar
• Walker, M. , Walker, D. , and Auerbach, N. , 1994: Plant communities of a tussock tundra landscape in the Brooks Range Foothills, Alaska. Journal of Vegetation Science , 5: 843–866.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wasmund, N. , 1984: Production and distribution of the microphytobenthos in the sediment of Lake Mikolajskie. Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie , 69: 215–229.
   Google Scholar
• Wasmund, N. , 1989: Micro-autoradiographic determination of the viability of algae inhabiting deep sediment layers. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science , 28: 651–656.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Welschmeyer, N. , 1994: Fluorometric analysis of chlorophyll a in the presence of chlorophyll b and phaeopigments. Limnology and Oceanography , 39: 1985–1992.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wetzel, R. , 1990: Land-water interfaces: metabolic and limnological regulators. Internationale Vereinigung fuer Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie , 24: 6–24.
   Google Scholar
• Whalen, S. , Chalfant, B. , Fischer, E. , Fortino, K. , and Hershey, A. , 2006: Comparative influence of resuspended glacial sediment on physicochemical characteristics and primary production in two Arctic lakes. Aquatic Sciences , 68: 65–77.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whalen, S. , Chalfant, B. , and Fischer, E. , 2008: Epipelic and pelagic primary production in Alaskan Arctic lakes of varying depth. Hydrobiologia , 614: 243–257.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar