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Hydrothermal plumes as hotspots for deep-ocean heterotrophic microbial biomass production

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  • Cécile Cathalot

    (Laboratoire Cycles Géochimiques et ressources – LCG/GM/REM, Ifremer)

  • Erwan G. Roussel

    (Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes – LMEE/EEP/REM, Ifremer)

  • Antoine Perhirin

    (Laboratoire Environnement Profond – LEP/EEP/REM, IFREMER)

  • Vanessa Creff

    (Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes – LMEE/EEP/REM, Ifremer)

  • Jean-Pierre Donval

    (Laboratoire Cycles Géochimiques et ressources – LCG/GM/REM, Ifremer)

  • Vivien Guyader

    (Laboratoire Cycles Géochimiques et ressources – LCG/GM/REM, Ifremer)

  • Guillaume Roullet

    (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM)

  • Jonathan Gula

    (Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM
    Institut Universitaire de France (IUF))

  • Christian Tamburini

    (Aix-Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD)

  • Marc Garel

    (Aix-Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD)

  • Anne Godfroy

    (Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes – LMEE/EEP/REM, Ifremer)

  • Pierre-Marie Sarradin

    (Laboratoire Environnement Profond – LEP/EEP/REM, IFREMER)

Abstract

Carbon budgets of hydrothermal plumes result from the balance between carbon sinks through plume chemoautotrophic processes and carbon release via microbial respiration. However, the lack of comprehensive analysis of the metabolic processes and biomass production rates hinders an accurate estimate of their contribution to the deep ocean carbon cycle. Here, we use a biogeochemical model to estimate the autotrophic and heterotrophic production rates of microbial communities in hydrothermal plumes and validate it with in situ data. We show how substrate limitation might prevent net chemolithoautotrophic production in hydrothermal plumes. Elevated prokaryotic heterotrophic production rates (up to 0.9 gCm−2y−1) compared to the surrounding seawater could lead to 0.05 GtCy−1 of C-biomass produced through chemoorganotrophy within hydrothermal plumes, similar to the Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) export fluxes reported in the deep ocean. We conclude that hydrothermal plumes must be accounted for as significant deep sources of POC in ocean carbon budgets.

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  • Cécile Cathalot & Erwan G. Roussel & Antoine Perhirin & Vanessa Creff & Jean-Pierre Donval & Vivien Guyader & Guillaume Roullet & Jonathan Gula & Christian Tamburini & Marc Garel & Anne Godfroy & Pier, 2021. "Hydrothermal plumes as hotspots for deep-ocean heterotrophic microbial biomass production," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-021-26877-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26877-6
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