A Multi-year Seasonal Study of Amoeboid Protists in Surface Water at the Margin of a Hudson River Estuary Salt Marsh
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RIS BIB ENDNOTEA Multi-year Seasonal Study of Amoeboid Protists in Surface Water at the Margin of a Hudson River Estuary Salt Marsh
Publication date: 2022
Acta Protozoologica, 2022, Volume 61, pp. 77 - 83
https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.22.007.16990Authors
A Multi-year Seasonal Study of Amoeboid Protists in Surface Water at the Margin of a Hudson River Estuary Salt Marsh
Marshes bordering rivers and estuaries are productive ecosystems that interact dynamically with the adjacent water mass. This is a multi-year study (2019–2022) of seasonal changes in the density of naked amoebae in monthly samples from the surface water of the Hudson estuary near Piermont, N. Y. with relationships to key environmental variables (surface water temperature, salinity, Secchi depth representing turbidity, and enterococcus bacterial counts). During the colder months (November to March), when decayed leaves and litter from the deciduous marsh grass produced organic matter in the sediment surface, the mean abundance of active amoebae ± standard error of the mean (SEM) was higher (3.07 ± 0.99 × 10⁴/ L, N = 7). In warmer months (May to September) the abundance of amoebae was lower (1.35 ± 0.29 × 10⁴ / L, N = 10). A multivariate linear regression analysis was performed relating amoeba abundance to four major water mass variables, resulting in the following statistically significant equation (p = 0.03): AD = 0.121 × T + 0.301 × L – 0.047 × S + 0.359 × C, where: AD = active amoebae density (× 10 /L), T = temperature ( C), L = tide level (m), S = Secchi disc depth (cm) and C = bacterial enterococcus concentration (number/ml). In general, given the increasing evidence of the potential importance of amoeboid protists in aquatic ecosystems, further research is warranted on their role in food webs and the carbon biogeochemical cycle within heterotrophic estuarine and coastal waters.
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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2022, Volume 61, pp. 77 - 83
Article type: Original article
Biology, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, U.S.A.
Published at: 2022
Received at: 01.10.2022
Accepted at: 30.11.2022
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